China: zero tolerance for academic freedom
As the Communist Party gathers, Xi’s harsh control strategies have already hit universities and academic freedom, way beyond Chinese borders.
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If not in a university, then where? Academia must define harm to allow open debate on difficult issues
As a teacher, an academic cannot use freedom of speech to say something that may directly demean or intimidate a student. But as a researcher, they must have the freedom to pursue the truth.
Novelist, academic and tattoo artist Samuel Steward’s plight shows that ‘cancel culture’ was alive and well in the 1930s
The ability of professors to freely teach and write about controversial topics without fear of retribution is nothing new.
Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic — it’s academic freedom
Scholars researching the politics and policies of Israel have been facing a growing and uphill battle for academic freedom.
Feel free to disagree on campus … by learning to do it well
Enshrining the Model Code on Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom in legislation won’t ensure disagreements on campus remain civil. Here are some practical guidelines on how to disagree well.
Balancing cybersecurity and academic freedom is a challenge on campus
Cyber threats are universal. But the appropriate response may be quite different in academia from what works in the corporate world.
Islam and the fine line of academic freedom
I’m in my seventeenth year of working at the University of Melbourne: at 37-years-old, that’s a fair chunk of my life in the one place. This isn’t a love letter to my employer, nevertheless there are lots…
Academic freedom isn’t the issue with Lomborg’s consensus centre
Controversial campaigner for climate change trivialisation Bjorn Lomborg is getting closer to learning his fate in Australia.
Court gives legal weight to academics’ right to intellectual freedom, but it’s not the final word
Does intellectual freedom mean academics can say what they want in whatever way they choose? Tim Anderson had a win this week, but a judge must still decide whether he was wrongfully dismissed.
Ghana is considering a new law to govern universities. Why it’s a bad idea
The government wants more power over university appointments, using financial management as the reason.
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