Synonyms for academic freedom
aca·dem·ic free·dom

Princeton's WordNet

1. academic freedomnoun

   the freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions

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1. Michael Schill:

   I also want to make it very clear that retaliation against those who hold different or critical views is contrary to the values of the University of Oregon, which is dedicated to free speech and academic freedom.

2. Marquette University in 2016:

   A tenured faculty member put a graduate student’s name and link to her contact information on the Internet so that people could go after her, that’s not academic freedom – it’s cyberbullying.

3. Everett Piper:

   The classical liberal is someone who stands for freedom, for liberty and for liberation. What we see today within the American academy is the shutting down of ideas. We see ideological fascism rather than academic freedom. The conservative voice is actually more classically liberal because we’re arguing for an open, robust exchange of ideas. Why? Because we can trust truth to judge the debate rather than politics or power.”

4. Emory University:

   With this honor, he becomes the first tenured faculty member at Emory to hold a Nobel Prize and the first tenured faculty member to have been a Emory University president, the principle undergirding tenure -- which essentially means a continuous post as a professor -- is to preserve academic freedom for those who teach and pursue research in higher education.

5. Professor Freyd:

   It's the duty of faculty members to speak openly and honestly based on the extent to which they have expertise or information on a topic, our primary responsibility is to produce knowledge and to teach knowledge and that's why academic freedom is so important. If my job is to reveal the underlying truth of things and to teach that truth, if I see something that looks problematic, I speak honestly about it.