Questions tagged [academic-freedom]

I am a professor at a Community College. My department has adopted policies through a majority vote . The two policies I have questions about are: An instructor must use the approved textbook for any particular course. An instructor may not use…

Faculty and students are generally regarded as having some degree of academic freedom (tenured faculty sometimes having more than non-tenured). Non-faculty staff seem to be a different matter. Specific institutions might have policies addressing…

I am in the early stages of figuring out the steps I need to take to lay the foundations for a career in research (hopefully). At the moment I'm still investigating the options for an MSc, which allow for enough scope for eventual PhD. The reason…

Should a professor tenured in field X receive research credit for research in a field other than X? What is your experience on this question? It is an important issue of academic freedom. If the answer is NO, then it means that tenure pigeon holes…