Sentences with phrase «about academic freedom»
He addressed the Association's concern, less about personal privacy than about academic freedom, which he argued rests on «control and confidentiality of [our] professional information.»
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The university is defending the economist's academic freedom after several people with homes worth more than $ 3 million sent complaints about him supporting the tax.
«We are concerned that news reports about NYPD's presence on our campus have a chilling effect on the intellectual freedom necessary for a vibrant academic community,» it read.
Academic freedom that's officially indifferent to truth or about «the free marketplace of ideas» always serves the forces of progressivist liberation; it implies, as John Stuart Mill seems to teach, a strong bias against truth claims that limit personal freedom or, as our Supreme Court now says, relational autonomy.
Catholic schools, for example, used to think of academic freedom as in the service of the truth we find in natural law, the truth about abortion, the relational person, and so forth.
When it is asserted that academic freedom can be limited by the truth, we are no longer talking about freedom but about license.
That, if they would only listen to themselves more carefully, is what some advocates of academic freedom are asserting in current debates about Christian higher education.
As it is, theologians go on endlessly about the repression of academic freedom and of their ever - so - creative ideas while ignoring the Magisterium's invitation to face up to the full importance and dignity of their task.
William Cavanaugh takes on the arrogance of the American Association of University Professors in its statements (1940, 1970, 1988) about «academic freedom.»
If the Vatican puts out a statement saying that Sister Margaret Farley's book on sexual morality is not in accord with Catholic teaching, one can count on the usual suspects to tut - tut about «authoritarian tendencies» and the suppression of academic freedom.
The president also noted: «Because concerns have been raised about many aspects of this complex situation — including concerns related to academic freedom, due process, the leaking of confidential information, possible violations of faculty governance, and gender and racial discrimination — I have asked the Board of Trustees to conduct a thorough review.
Attention must be devoted to: the absence of contact with the supervisor, faulty project propositions, uninspiring and lonely working surroundings, the absence of an introduction into the organisation, disagreement about authorship as well as academic freedom, and intimidation by the supervisor.
'' [Weber and Curry] may have different views on climate change, but I think that's a strength of our department that we can have academic freedom and host faculty members with different opinions about subjects,» Huey said.
«My own sense is that private institutions have been more proactive about defining academic freedom and faculty rights pertaining to them.
The practical implications of LeRoy's research is that the First Amendment isn't the shield that most academics believe it to be, «which means that professors and academics must think much more deeply about strategies to preserve academic freedom,» he said.
«Helping students to have freedom to feel mistakes are part of the learning process will allow for students to focus more on developing effective strategies connected to the academic task at hand, rather than worrying about getting a perfect score on a test.»
Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo, who recently wrote an L.A. Times op - ed about affirmative action, points out that although race - based affirmative action is still legal, universities can't rely solely on academic freedom to justify admissions policies.
She started spending a lot of time in various departments of the university — from the registrar's office to provost's office — learning about the basics of higher education, including academic freedom and FERPA.
Zimba gave up an academic career in which he had the freedom to wonder about abstract physics problems in the peace and quiet of his Vermont barn and to solve complex puzzles for the sheer pleasure of it.
«One of my deepest concerns about the imposition of the Common Core is that private, religious, and homeschool educators might be forced into adopting government - dictated curricula and assessments that violate their academic freedom and rights of conscience.
The corporate education reform industry, riding high off a successful anti-teacher tenure lawsuit in California, is targeting the single most important element of academic freedom and working conditions for public school teachers and now the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure is saying that his abusive language about teachers «Wasn't about them.
For the 2017 - 18 academic year, the Ethics Center will explore the theme of freedom of speech and civil discourse through public events, the work of a team of undergraduate fellows, and the provision of educational materials about key, contested ethical issues.
It does seem to be an odd place though to choose to stay silent about some critical issues now re-arising in the arena of academic freedom.
The gagging of Dr Spash's work is embarrassing for Science Minister Kim Carr, who defended academic freedoms in opposition and last year trumpeted a new CSIRO charter he said would give scientists the right to speak publicly about their findings.
The ECtHR noted the importance of academic freedom, and in particular freedom to express opinions about the institution or the system in which academics work.
As for the aforementioned New York Times piece about Peltz's lawsuit, it concludes with what may be a classic case of understatement: «The Arkansas case could do more than give law students practical experience before they take the bar; it could also renew debate about free speech on campus and academic freedom.»
«News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture... and a bit of poetry.»
Smith writes, «A case that was about whether a convicted man is innocent has morphed into an increasingly personal brawl between two heavyweights unwilling to back down — with academics, prosecutors, freedom of the press advocates, and students hanging on the judge's decision.»
Virk approved the program despite an expert panel's «serious reservations» about TWU's academic freedom, breadth of world view, ability to teach legal skills, and course quality, a press release from OUTlaws states.
Given the scope of this legislation, and the compressed time for consideration, the Faculty of Law presents a conference involving Canada's leading legal academics, which asks important questions about the scope of the Bill C - 36 and the relationship between national security and restrictions on rights and freedoms.
For the 2017 - 18 academic year, the Ethics Center will explore the theme of freedom of speech and civil discourse through public events, the work of a team of undergraduate fellows, and the provision of educational materials about key, contested ethical issues.