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Confucius

What does Confucius say about intellectual freedom?

No easy solution exists precisely because defining the borders between intellectual freedom and intellectual dishonesty is so hard. Where does intent factor in to drawing “the line?” What about faith? In the South, we say “you can’t fix stupid,” but intellectual freedom includes the freedom to go down many paths, right?

March 20, 2018March 24, 2018 Jessica Garner Academic Freedom, Education
Free Expression Quote from University of Chicago President

From Restrictive Speech Codes to Virtue-Signaling Statements: Is There a Better Way?

There must be something in-between an institutionally-coerced pledge and a removed-from-the individual committee statement. Of course, you know this is where I also say that academic librarians have a role. Like professors, we have a professional duty to encourage the development of informed opinions.

February 25, 2018February 23, 2018 Allyson Mower Academic Freedom, Professional Ethics
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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