... also found Justice Souter's hard-line definition too broad for determining what speech to protect. ...
In recent years higher education has come under intense scrutiny from stakeholders and the public. Particularly, faculty have been indicted for what many perceive as lack luster performance. The professoriate has been indicted for being self promoting, lazy, incompetent, and unaccountable. Yet, faculty are asked to perform in complex roles. In essence, the professoriate in higher education has fallen from grace. In order to address the indictments, this paper examines the complexity of the professoriate from three perspectives: (1) tenure; (2) academic freedom; and (3) faculty as employees. Utilizing the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) "Statement of Principles" as a basis, these concepts are explored to address specific issues related to misunderstandings and misco...
... term "tenure" is so widely known, its definition is assumed to be clearly understood both within th...
The term 'neoliberalism' has since around 1980 become a quite widely used exhortation in some political and academic debates. Prolific employment of a term does not signify, however, that it is clearly defined. In this article it is suggested that while the concept itself has become an imprecise buzzword in much of the literature, it might still be given a more precise definition. If this is done, then the term could become a useful analytical device in order to describe some recent trends in economic thought and political theory, even if it would be an obvious overstatement to say that we live in a neoliberal age or a neoliberal world.
... reforms tending in the direction of freedom or democracy". The same dictionary describes neoli...
..., the Federal Pell Grant Program, and the Academic. Competitiveness Grant (AGC) and National Science ... to the provisions related to the definition of credit hour, Marianna Deeken or Fred Sellers. T... restrictive and inhibited the academic freedom of schools. Other non-. Federal negotiators agreed...
... refusal to defend her work violated her academic freedom.9 The University of Oregon stated that its... or original scholarly research.27 This definition of research excludes textbooks, data reports, or o...
... human dignity when deciding cases about freedom of speech, reproductive rights, racial equality, g... requiring a space of freedom for self-definition. . 5. Free Speech . American free speech jurisprud... too clear that the issue is not merely academic."). . (355) A significant amount of modern politic...
... under the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act[, Va. Code Ann. §§ 2.1-340.1 ... Virginia General Assembly amended the definition of "sexually explicit content" to add the italiciz... more particularly that the Act violates academic employees' right to academic freedom. II. It is we...
[...] the value of a book does not automatically diminish with the passage of time; the text has a message that remains squarely positioned at the center of campus discussions regarding the best model for promoting academic scholarship and improved work quality among faculty. Ann Austin is a distinguished professor of higher, adult, and lifelong learning at Michigan State University whose research has focused on faculty careers, roles and professional development, as well as organizational change and transformation in higher education.
... equity in academic appointments, academic freedom, ensuring flexibility in academic appointments, pr...They posit, however, that the definition of academic freedom can be extended to include the...
For The Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom, by Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post, is reviewed.
..."18 of liberal education because by definition it does not "accept the principles of freedom of i...
...Part II will discuss the definition of academic freedom from the American Association ...
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