Sentences with phrase «academic freedom now»
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.
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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.
The slogan of «freedom now» is not only the cry of civil rights demonstrators; it is also the watchword of a generation of college and university students seeking for meaning and motivation in their academic work.
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.
Instead of pushing for ID as a scientific alternative to evolution, as they did in the past, creationists are now flying the banner of «academic freedom» and presentation of evolutionary theory's «strengths and weaknesses».
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.
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 supreme irony now is that young women who have all the opportunities for academic freedom which you had to fight tooth and nail for, are accusing you of misogyny based not upon sexist behaviour, but upon your supposed «climate denier» status!
Never voiced until now, was my firm belief that what was under attack was the most essential privilege that I gained with my tenure as a law professor in 2001 — my academic freedom.