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Benjamin Franklin quote: Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech

A Call to Protect Academic Freedom

Institutions of higher education are seeing an increasing number of challenges to the principles of academic freedom that have seemingly been embedded in higher education since the establishment of American universities … This notion, however, that academic freedom has always existed in academic institutions in the United States is inaccurate.

April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 Valerie Nye Academic Freedom, First Amendment
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