Sentences with phrase «academic freedom rights»

Not exact matches

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

This is the right usually referred to as academic freedom.

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.

But I do suggest that a start in the right direction might be made in our schools and colleges Today an entirely false concept of academic freedom is turning our colleges into booby traps for young and impressionable minds.

Such reprisals consciously or unconsciously have a chilling effect on the right to responsible dissent within the church; on academic freedom in Catholic colleges and universities; and on the right to free speech and participation in the U.S. political process.

Elsewhere, there is a puzzling assertion that businessmen, et al., should have the same rights of expression that academic freedom guarantees to faculty — but that assertion destroys the real and substantial teleological distinction between the work of faculty (precisely to deal with and attempt to clarify and expand truth for its own sake) and other professions with quite different ends.

On October 10, 2012 the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition convened a special event on «Science and Academic Freedom in the Digital Age.»

According to the report, Üskül likely «was dismissed as the head of the constitutional law department» because of a petition he had brought «to the Turkish parliament's Human Rights Commission objecting to an optical fingerprint scanning security system installed on campus on the grounds that it harmed academic freedom.»

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated mFreedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated mfreedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated academic or unrelated matters.

Scientists, journalists, and others oppose the law, noting the restrictions on academic freedom and the public's right to know.

«The First Amendment is not synonymous with academic freedom, and my research shows that courts and faculty are essentially on two different pages regarding constitutional rights.»

The Freedom of Scientific Research and Academic Teaching: Ethics, Human Rights, and Institutions, Bielefeld University, Torsten Wilholt (2008)

According to Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at Thomas More, Dawn and Julie's method of presenting the material and asking the students to pick a theory and debate it, based on the evidence, is a method of teaching that's supported by the judicial concept of academic freedom: that teachers and students have the right to pursue knowledge, wherever it may lead.

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

Under the principle of academic freedom, faculty members generally have the right to develop and modify course materials within their fields of expertise, and to use pedagogical techniques they deem most appropriate for the subject matter.

If tenure is abolished, teachers will lose academic freedom and students will lose the right to study controversial or heterodox matters.

According to an article by Perry Zirkel in Educational Leadership (2013) titled «Academic freedom: Professional or Legal Right?»

«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.

That day, on the fundamental issue of teacher tenure, academic freedom and the right of teachers to have due process, Malloy said,

Firing would entail a long due process in any case, and regardless of other ethical issues, while there Soon retains the academic freedom to be quite right or quite wrong.

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.

This information is also essential to enable lawmakers to improve the balance between academic freedom and confidentiality of peer review on the one hand, and the public's right to access information on the other.

Alexander Schuster is ECSOL - member for Italy and for European fundamental freedoms and EU citizenship, as well as a practicing lawyer and academic researcher in the field of fundamental rights.

«I think Justice Hugo Black was right to say that First Amendment rights «must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish»; and the same is true of academic freedom principles, flowing both from the First Amendment rights of public university employees and from their tenure contracts and professional norms.

In 2009, Lakehead University defeated a grievance brought by its faculty association that claimed it had violated faculty members» privacy and right to academic freedom by outsourcing its e-mail system to Google and thereby exposing faculty members» communications to interception by American law enforcement authorities.

Academic freedom was trampled this weekend when two members of our executive were summarily arrested while carrying out their duties protecting our public right to dissent.

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.