Sentences with phrase «academic freedom»

The panel respects the importance of academic freedom in higher education.

There is some difference as to the topics which test the extent of academic freedom in public, private, and church institutions.

The three Italian scientists opposing the funding exclusion say it violates their constitutional rights and puts academic freedom at risk.

«Of course it violates academic freedom,» she writes to a friend.

While those who teach in a university system are guaranteed academic freedom, there is no such guarantee for teachers of younger students.

But, increasingly, scientists do not need to sacrifice academic freedom for the opportunity to bring their discoveries to market.

Academic freedom means saying what you want to say and teaching what you want to teach.

It was believed that this would restrict academic freedom.

We fight for scientists and defend scientific integrity by exposing and challenging these attacks against science to preserve academic freedom and prevent manipulation of public policy.

This ensures experienced educators have job security and encourages academic freedom.

To incorporate a project such as this into a «regular» classroom, a school would have to give the instructor more academic freedom than the average classroom teacher usually has.

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.

I favor academic freedom, and I would like to see a situation in which professors are supported in their inquiries, however unpopular they may be.

It is one evidence of how sweeping was this establishment of independent territories that the ideal of academic freedom now emerged as the most sacred of all principles within the new academic professions.

But I do not see that as a loss, because I think that the government takeover of the universities with these vast structures of funding does not ultimately benefit academic freedom.

The goal is to allow young academics freedom in research and teaching earlier than has been the case.

While academic freedom permits faculty members to study any area they wish, they still have a responsibility to follow university policies or face disciplinary and / or legal action.

But doing so would miss a vital point: the endowment tax is an attack on academic freedom, and it is an attack on all colleges and universities.

This principle of academic freedom maintains that it is beneficial for society overall if scholars (teachers) are allowed to hold a variety of views.

What is the alternative: Academic freedom means the freedom to be indifferent to truth and the common good?

The paper's findings suggest that the First Amendment doesn't adequately protect academic freedom as fully as faculty «understand the concept of constitutionally protected speech,» LeRoy said.

The nature the agreement between Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Kinder Morgan raises questions about academic freedom and the political nature of the contribution.

► Also on Thursday, Martin Enserink provided an update on virologist Ron Fouchier, who for the past 3 years «has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?»

I thought of this recently as I re-read Harvard's report on the humanities «Mapping the Future» in light of the debate over academic freedom that Peter Lawler addressed.

See «Evangelicalism and Anti-Intellectualism: Blame the Leaders» and «Worthen on Inerrancy and the Evangelical Crisis of Authority» and «Evangelicals and the Uneasy Relationship with Academic Freedom»

Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic higher education.»

Lund University is a member of Scholars at Risk (SAR), a network of more than 250 member institutions in 30 countries that works to help threatened academics and promote academic freedom worldwide.

The Plaintiff submitted that there exists an unrecognized duty on the university to allow an academic to pursue academic freedom by pursuing research opportunities.

In this instance in particular, there is also a concern over the possible impinging upon academic freedom.

In general, academic freedom rights are preserved for university and college professors, while K - 12 teachers» rights may be limited by contract.

Thus, to the majority, Grutter takes place within the «unique context of higher education,» and within the tradition of academic freedom found in many First Amendment rulings over the past 50 years — a First Amendment tradition that substantially underwrote the Court's decision in Grutter, and that is not relevant with respect to K - 12 schools.

And yet, I really question why anyone would want to attend a school that restricts academic freedom like this.

On the other hand, the advocacy of Communism does test academic freedom in public and private institutions; and for the most part they have failed that test.

By picking this rather awesome example to introduce her book, Lernoux emphasizes that what is at stake in «the battle for world Catholicism» is not simply whether the church is in tune with the times or whether theologians will enjoy full academic freedom, but the life and death of people.

Freedom, including academic freedom, is necessarily related to truth.

Senate and House legislators are running out of time to pinpoint parameters of Evolution Academic Freedom Act.

He said that upholding academic freedom, like democracy, «is untidy, ungainly and often inconvenient.

Grijalva's wide - ranging request caused an uproar, including claims that it represented a «witch hunt,» as well as letters expressing concern about the balance between transparency and academic freedom from the American Geophysical Union and the American Metrological Society.

Tennessee now joins Louisiana, the only other state with a so - called academic freedom law — a policy that allows instructors to challenge established scientific theories like evolution and teach unfounded alternatives.

«My own sense is that private institutions have been more proactive about defining academic freedom and faculty rights pertaining to them.