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. Cherise Trump:

   There have been too many occasions where faculty members had to abandon their beliefs and forfeit their academic freedom in order to keep their jobs. I'm concernedthat the more resources universities pour into this endeavor by only hiring facultywho are willing to tow the line, the less they will focus on developing highly skilled individuals who can easily enter the workforce at top levels.

2. 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.

3. Senate Republicans:

   I was in the Soviet Union, where there was no academic freedom, and this was a mandatory assigned topic, my grandmother was orphaned because Stalin sent her entire family to Siberia and they died there… I was 18, and within a year I became an anti-communist like most of my classmates. We were reading stuff that was prohibited. We were listening to Pink Floyd, which was illegal.

4. 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.”

5. 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.