Academic Freedom : : The Global Challenge / / ed. by Stefan Roch, Michael Ignatieff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Botstein, Leon,; Brubaker, Rogers,; Chikán, Attila,; Cole, Jonathan R.,; Csépe, Valéria,; Ignatieff, Michael,; Kadıoğlu, Ayşe,; Kenesei, István,; Matei, Liviu,; Nowotny, Helga,; Rao, Nirmala,; Stanger, Allison,; Stimpson, Catharine R.,; Tausz, Katalin,; Vargas Llosa, Mario,; Vass, László,; Wallach Scott, Joan,
• HerausgeberIn: Ignatieff, Michael,; Roch, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (170 p.)

Academic freedom—the institutional autonomy of scientific, research and teaching institutions, and the freedom of individual scholars and researchers to pursue controversial research and publish controversial opinions—is a cornerstone of any free society. Today this freedom is under attack from the state in many countries—Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Hungary, China—but it is also under question from within academe. Bitter disputes have erupted on American campuses, for example, about the limits of free speech and about whether liberal academic freedoms have degenerated into a form of coercive political correctness. Beyond the academy itself, among the general public, academic freedom is contested ground. As Robert Post of Yale Law School has put it, academic freedom is "the price the public must pay in return for the social good of advancing knowledge." Populist currents of political opinion are questioning the price a society pays for the freedom of its 'experts' and professors.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Academic Freedom From Without and Within -- Academic Freedom: The Tension Between the University and the State -- THE THREAT WITHOUT: STATE PRACTICES AND BARRIERS TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD -- Three Ideas of Academic Freedom -- Academic Freedom in the UK, the Indian Subcontinent and Bangladesh -- Academic Freedom and Universities in Continental Europe -- Academic Freedom: The Global Challenge and the Case of Turkey -- What Is Academic Freedom? Perspectives from New York and Abu Dhabi -- THE THREAT WITHIN: THE STRUGGLE FOR AND AGAINST ACADEMIC FREEDOM WITHIN U.S. UNIVERSITIES -- The Fundamental Role of Academic Freedom and Free Inquiry in US Higher Education -- Lessons from Middlebury -- Academic Freedom and Controversial Speech about Campus Governance -- Academic Freedom in the US and Its Enemies: A Polemic -- TAKING ACCOUNT OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN HUNGARY -- Key Developments in Hungarian Higher Education -- University Autonomy in Hungary in Perspective -- Historical Foundations of Academic Freedom in Hungary -- Academic Freedom and Quality Assurance in Hungarian Universities -- The Situation in Hungary from the Perspective of Private Universities -- Freedom and Its Enemies, or How To Be a Good Citizen in a Tangled World -- References -- Index