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College of the Redwoods faculty and hosts debate scope and limits of academic freedom
Summary
Faculty and hosts on a College of the Redwoods program discussed what academic freedom means in classrooms, its three traditional components, and how administrators should respond to community pressure and social-media campaigns; no formal actions were proposed.
Molly Blakemore, host of the radio program "Free Speech with CR," and cohost Dr. Keith Glamer convened a discussion at College of the Redwoods on the meaning and limits of academic freedom, featuring philosophy professor John Johnston and English-turned-philosophy instructor Natalia Magalies.
John Johnston, who identified himself as a philosophy professor at College of the Redwoods, outlined a three-part definition of academic freedom: the freedom to research and publish; the freedom to teach and speak on subject matter in the classroom; and a broader freedom for faculty to speak on matters of public or institutional interest and to participate in shared governance. "Academic freedom is usually broken into three areas," Johnston said, tracing the idea from medieval…
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