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University Oversight of Professors' Teaching Activities: A Professor's Academic Freedom Does Not Mean Freedom from Institutional Regulation
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Fossey, Richard – Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 2007
This article reviews federal case law that address a college instructor's right to academic freedom over classroom activities. This review shows that the federal courts have defined a college instructor's academic freedom rights narrowly in terms of the instructor's classroom activities. Institutions have a great deal of latitude to regulate an…
Descriptors: Federal Courts, Court Litigation, College Faculty, Academic Freedom