Not exact matches
All of this occurs, of course, in the name of
academic freedom, the
guarantee that professors will not be sanctioned for the substance of what they write and teach.
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.
His colleague, MIT professor and Data - Pop Alliance
academic director Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has called for a «new deal on data,» a set of workable
guarantees that the data needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and
freedom.
«[T] he failure to
guarantee that research, teaching and discussion on sensitive issues can safely go forward undermines the university space and critical values of autonomy and
academic freedom.»
Schuman and her husband, both neuroscientists, moved to the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research as «directors,» prestigious positions as the heads of large research groups that come with
guaranteed funding until retirement and full
academic freedom.
It rests on three pillars: simple job security and longevity, really a form of
guaranteed continuing employment (often viewed as a fringe benefit that substitutes for higher pay); protection against diverse forms of discrimination, favoritism and capriciousness on the part of employers; and
academic freedom, meaning in essence that instructors can almost never be fired on account of what they say or write.
All of this occurs, of course, in the name of
academic freedom, the
guarantee that professors will not be sanctioned for the substance of what they write and teach.