Debates about academic freedom have become increasingly fierce
and frequent. Legislative efforts to regulate American professors
proliferate across the nation. Although most American scholars
desire to protect academic freedom, they have only a vague and
uncertain apprehension of its basic principles and structure. This
book offers a concise explanation of the history and meaning of
American academic freedom, and it attempts to intervene in
contemporary debates by clarifying the fundamental functions and
purposes of academic freedom in America.
Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post trace how the American
conception of academic freedom was first systematically articulated
in 1915 by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
and how this conception was in subsequent years elaborated and
applied by Committee A of the AAUP. The authors discuss the four
primary dimensions of academic freedom--research and publication,
teaching, intramural speech, and extramural speech. They carefully
distinguish academic freedom from the kind of individual free
speech right that is created by the First Amendment. The authors
strongly argue that academic freedom protects the capacity of
faculty to pursue the scholar's profession according to the
standards of that profession.
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