Academic freedom
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Academic freedom is the belief that the freedom of inquiry by students and faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy, and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts (including those that are inconvenient to external political groups or to authorities) without being targeted for repression, job loss, or imprisonment.
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See also
- Anthony D. Smith
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Freedom of education
- Freedom of speech
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe – involved in an academic freedom controversy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- List of educational institutions closed in the 2016 Turkish purges
- Network for Education and Academic Rights
- Politicization of science
- Pedagogy
- Right to science and culture
- Scholars at Risk
- Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship
- Speech code
- Urofsky v. Gilmore
- Academic freedom in the Middle East
- Chicago principles
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