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What Is Academic Freedom? Statement That Alarmed Professors at U. of Texas Sets Off Debate

August 27, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

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By Lindsay Ellis

July 24, 2018

Who gets academic freedom at the University of Texas at Austin? In a court filing on Monday, three professors at the state’s flagship argued that it depends on whom you ask — and in what context.

Lawyers representing UT-Austin as part of a campus-carry lawsuit argued in January that academic freedom, if it exists, belongs to the institution and not to individual professors. In response to recent inquiries, the flagship’s president, Gregory L. Fenves, affirmed to faculty leaders that the principle of freedom remained central to the campus.

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