The politics of academic freedom

✍ Scribed by Nancy L. Thomas

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 53 KB
• Volume: 2010
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-0560
• DOI: 10.1002/he.416

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Institutional leaders, faculty, students, and the public need a better understanding of why academic freedom is essential to student learning and to a democracy characterized by open, reasoned, and vigorous political discourse.