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I am not sure if your definition of academic freedom applies equally all over the world. I understand Humboldts definition of "Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre"
by freemint 5y ago
I am not sure if your definition of academic freedom applies equally all over the world.
I understand Humboldts definition of "Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre" an university is obligated to support you once you have been taken on and to fire people because of their research alone would violate it.
- JohnBooty 5y agoIn this specific case she was a guest of Essex University and not a tenured professor there, so they were under no specific obligation to provide a platform for her. Jo Phoenix, a professor of criminology at Britain’s Open University, was due to give a talk at Essex University To your point though, I wouldn't find it good for a tenured professor to lose their job for such a thing. However, even the idea of tenure really is meant to be more like "freedom from interference" and not "unlimited freedom without consequences", right? And of course the tenure track prior to tenure is of course a period of intense vetting.
- raxxorrax 5y agoThe way people aligned to academic gender and racism ideas justify discharging other tells me a lot about the quality of said ideas. It happens in other faculties too, but not nearly that often and that decisive. You have to convince others of your ideas at some point...