Online opinion: Academic freedom for whom?
Posted by admin in Academic Freedom, Comment on 21. Jul, 2008 | 0 Comments
Katherine Gelber writes at Online Opinion: This is serious stuff indeed. The very same committee which is to investigate balance and prejudice is simultaneously tasked with promoting academic freedom. This seems like a bit of an oxymoron to me. Find out if we’re prejudiced, and simultaneously protect us from intellectual intrusion. Surely the former constitutes [...]
Margaret Thornton: Statement on academic freedom
Posted by admin in Academic Freedom, Comment on 21. Jul, 2008 | 0 Comments
Academic freedom has been recognised as the keystone of the modern university since the time of Humboldt 200 years ago. As we now inhabit what has become the enterprise university, that concept has become tarnished. The enterprise university as the captive of the market has re-interpreted academic freedom as the freedom to promote the self [...]
