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.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Academic Freedom from Without and Within
- Academic Freedom: The Tension Between the University and the State
- The University and the Nation
- Academic Freedom
- Public and Private
- THE THREAT WITHOUT: STATE PRACTICES AND BARRIERS TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD
- Three Ideas of Academic Freedom
- The Distinction Between Academic Freedom and University Autonomy
- Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy are Multidimensional
- Universities Need the State
- Lessons from CEU and Other Universities
- Academic Freedom in the UK, the Indian Subcontinent and Bangladesh
- Academic Freedom in the UK
- Academic Freedom and the Indian Subcontinent
- 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 ACADEMICFREEDOM WITHIN U.S. UNIVERSITIES
- The Fundamental Role of Academic Freedom and Free Inquiry in US Higher Education
- Academic Freedom and Attacks against it in the US froma Historical Perspective
- Two Fundamental Sources of Academic Freedom in the US
- Lessons from Middlebury
- Introduction
- The Middlebury Incident
- 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 HungarianUniversities
- The Situation in Hungary from the Perspective of PrivateUniversities
- Freedom and its Enemies, or How To Be a Good Citizenin a Tangled World
- References
- Index
- Back cover
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