“The Value and Responsibilities of Academic Freedom”
Lee C. Bollinger
The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2005
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In a time when universities are under public pressure, four principles should be adhered to. These are to provide students an environment in which they learn to consider a multitude of perspectives simultaneously, to acknowledge that the university, faculty, and individual departments, do engage in monitoring inappropriate behavior, that universities as units should not take stances on controversial issues, but students and faculty have the right to, and that universities must resist outside pressures and maintain autonomy. (back to academic freedom)