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...plagiarism and the importance of academic excellence. Why is it then that there are no clear rules or requirements for the amount of effort that faculty must contribute to the course environment? If passing requirements can be set for students across the board without threat to their academic freedom, then surely it is possible for faculty as well. Without them, students can hardly consider themselves equal citizens in an academic community; rather we realize that we are looked on, at best, as mere consumers of “education...
Remember that it’s a privilege to have to have choices. This is freedom at work, baby. Avoiding them will leave you waiting for Godot, in an endless cycle of aimlessness...
...what several educators say is an unusual affront to academic freedom, a new law signed by President Bush in December requires all schools that receive federal funding to honor the anniversary of the Constitution’s adoption with a lesson on the nation’s founding document...
...Supreme Court has frequently recognized a qualified right to academic freedom among both public and private institutions. In a 1967 decision written by William J. Brennan, the court determined, “Our Nation is deeply committed to safeguarding academic freedom, which is of transcendent value to all of us and not merely to the teachers concerned. That freedom is therefore a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom...
...three-day celebration was the second in HLS’s history, and included panels, discussions, and the presentation of the HLS Medal of Freedom to author Randall Robinson...