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The American Association of University Professors' 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure is now on the AAUP website! We are glad to see that it has made an appearance there--from which it has long been absent--as it is one of the most important documents to outline the importance of faculty independence, while also detailing the ways faculty should use their independence to promote better teaching and the free exchange of ideas. Cary Nelson, president of the AAUP--and ACTA's pledged partner in fighting against oppressive speech codes--also links to the statement in an interesting piece in the July/August issue of Academe discussing what he sees as the tension between the academic freedom of institutions and the academic freedom of individual professors to teach their classes as they see fit. We hope the prominent reappearance of the 1915 statement presages a greater focus by the AAUP on academic freedom as a right with a "corresponding duty."
Posted by Noah Mamis on July 29, 2009 at July 29, 2009 04:57 PM
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