Battle Heats Up Over Academic Freedom
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.
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There are calls from the Conservatives to stop the removal of student funding for second degree courses.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 -- Scholars across the political spectrum protested what they called an assault on academic freedom after the University of California at Irvine withdrew a job offer from a liberal professor who wrote an op-ed criticizing the Bush administration.
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On the heels of a student loan scandal, some higher education officials have called a conferenceâs format deeply troubling.
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Media & professional: Academics and students hit back at lecturers' support for a boycott of Israeli institutions.
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As students return to the campus, a debate continues over how schools should handle students in distress
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MPs are to debate plans which will require schools to give unbiased advice about course options.
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An international campaign has been launched to demand that four Palestinian students deported from their West Bank university to the Gaza Strip be allowed to return to complete their studies.
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A British school has launched a pilot program where students as young as 11 are subjected to random drug tests &#151; a project that has generated interest in Washington and fed a civil liberties debate on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Kremlin accused of mounting unprecedented attack on academic freedom after    top Russian university closed
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Senators promise to reintroduce a bill that would force scientific publishers to post publicly funded research for free. The publishers fight back with a PR campaign. By Randy Dotinga.
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Why the campaign against U.S. News & World Report's college rankings reeks of self-serving censorship.
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An outspoken government official and a determined university president are bumping heads over what academic institution can best represent high-tech research in Northern Virginia.
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Schools grapple with degree to which they're responsible for social, as well as academic, skills.
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Some high-profile scientists have jumped into the fight over the University of Wisconsin-Madison's stem cell patents, supporting the effort to have them revoked.
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In recent months, economists have engaged in an impassioned debate over the way their specialty is taught at universities and practiced in Washington.