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Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility
ACTA has consistently spoken out in defense of academic freedom as the very lifeblood of the American academy. ACTA has also called for high standards of professional ethics within the academy to accompany academic freedom. There is, after all, no constitutional or natural right to academic freedom: it is a very special privilege widely granted by institutions in recognition of the importance of free inquiry. It also draws upon a longstanding tradition of public respect for professorial integrity. ACTA's recent panel at the American Association of University Professors Conference on Shared Governance accordingly emphasized the inseparability of academic freedom and academic ethics.
Today, ACTA Research Fellows, Erin O'Connor and Maurice Black published an important article in Inside Higher Education, "Save Academic Freedom." They write, "Professors must decide how much academic freedom is worth to them. Is it worth policing themselves--consistently, consequentially, and transparently?" That is, indeed, the question.
Posted by Michael Poliakoff on February 28, 2011 at February 28, 2011 04:25 PM
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