To play devils advocate and bounce back to the original statement.... Is it "Academic Freedom" when a professor refuses to teach history as it happened (refusing to touch on the wars that shaped world history) instead putting a hard spin on it to profess a singular ideology?
*My* definition of academic freedom would be to be presented the facts in the most truthful manner, free of any slant or spin, and allow me to form my own opinions. Just my $.02 Scott A. Stewart Webmaster/ Developer 11820 Parklawn Dr Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 770-9610 x 335 -----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:48 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: RE: military recruiting on college campuses Here's another good commentary from the same page: Academic Freedom Is a Cornerstone of Democracy Academic freedom is a precious and fragile support to discussion and intellectual growth within the academic community. It is very difficult to have a national participative democracy without it. There are continual challenges to academic freedom from both outside and inside academia. Professor Doumani has given a clear and succinct description of current external challenges specific to post-9/11 society. At the same time, it is important to understand that academic freedom can be undermined from within through incompetence, lack of professionalism and bigotry. I don't think that the internal successes and failures of academic freedom nationwide have been clearly observed, analyzed and documented. Ad hoc assessments, based on hearsay and anecdotal evidence, fall way short of a reliable picture of the state of academic freedom. Also, most media attention seems to be focused on large state-run universities and ignore small private colleges, so I would not expect a comprehensive picture to be available. Finally, examination of the publishing successes of few high-profile authors tells us nothing about what happens in the classroom nationwide. Tim Duncan, Dean at Cogswell Polytechnical College, at 2:25 pm EST on March 7, 2006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199256 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
