Archive for the tag "academic_freedom"
Academic Freedom Is About The Task At Hand
You may think you learned everything you needed to know about academic freedom when you took ACRLog’s Academic Freedom Quiz. The reality is that our understanding of academic freedom will continue to evolve as higher education experts and others continue to examine the exact nature of academic freedom and how we can best intepret the [...]
Posted: 2 December, 2008 in Top Issues.
Tags: academic_freedom
Comments: 7
An Academic Freedom Quiz
As a profession we’ve spent lots of time debating academic freedom and tenure for academic librarians. Do academic librarians need the protections of academic freedom? If not, why do they need tenure? If yes, why are some on the tenure track and not others? These are questions for which there are no easy answers. But [...]
Posted: 8 April, 2008 in Higher Education.
Tags: academic_freedom, tenure
Comments: 5