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academic freedom

NOUN
freedom to learn
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Neither tenure nor academic freedom protect professors who regularly violate their institution’s policies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The influential leaders of UCLA’s Academic Senate sent a more measured letter to Frenk about their “concerns and reservations,” urging administrators and faculty to work together to uphold academic freedom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

A Yale spokeswoman said the school stands “firm in the university’s commitment to students’ free expression, academic freedom, and Yale’s ability to determine who is admitted in accordance with the law.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

And yet, the encroachment on academic freedom has become both more extreme and more inchoate.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

Even the most ardent anticommunists among them regarded the oath as an uncomfortable reminder of the impositions on academic freedom they had suffered in their homelands.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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