Examines the question of exactly what a teacher can teach in the public schools of the United States. The article explores the constitutional rights of both teachers and their students. Although these two categories are very closely related and in many instances almost inseparable, an attempt is made to look at the rights of each as they affect…

Article points up the essential nature of academic freedom as allowing teachers to be innovative and enliven and inspire students by exercising professional and intellectual judgement in presenting course material. (Author/GB)

Kurt Vonnegut states that in banning books from publicly supported institutions, censors (including school board members) are violating the Constitution. (WD)

States that, during its first five years, the Rehnquist Court was supportive of free expression issues. Contends that in later years a different picture emerges. Asserts that this drop in support, caused by the retirement of justices carried over from the Berger Court, gives rise to concerns about the future of free expression rights. (PRA)

Although colleges and universities should provide a climate in which external conventions and social pressures are absent, and individualism and intellectual freedom can flourish, they no longer do so. Higher education institutions should detach themselves from commercial culture and urge intellectual passions. (MSE)

More than 1.6 million American service members have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). As of December 2008, more than 4,000 troops have been killed and over 30,000 have returned from a combat zone with visible wounds and a range of permanent disabilities. In addition, an…

Free speech concerns associated with collective bargaining become important when unions impose fair-share fees that charge nonmembers for costs associated with the benefits they receive through labor negotiations. When unions collect fair-share fees, those payments often support causes with which nonmembers and dissenting members disagree.…

This essay explores the ways in which the ancient Greek concept of parrhesia, defined as "frank speech and telling the truth as one sees it," can help facilitate the development of both intellectual courage and democracy as a way of life. It theorizes dimensions of parrhesia for the purpose of better educating a civic self-image rooted…

The focus of this article is on the impact of cultural influences in academic knowledge transfer (KT). This aspect of the KT process was studied at Dutch and German technical universities. The analysis shows that professional values and identities play an important role in academic KT. Administrators in university KT offices were found to be…

In recent years, there has been considerable and renewed interest in the effects of McCarthyism on academia. Ellen Schrecker's "No Ivory Tower" (1986), Lionel Lewis' "Cold War on Campus" (1988), David Holmes' "Stalking the Academic Communist" (1989), Charles McCormick's "This Nest of Vipers" (1989), Neil Hamilton's "Zealotry and Academic Freedom"…

Spirituals are religious folk songs that were created and sung by enslaved African Americans to express the emotions and thoughts of a people in bondage. The spiritual conveyed deep religious convictions and the desire for freedom brought on by two centuries' worth of oppression, as slavery was legal in the United States from approximately 1650…

Library blogs exchange information and ideas on everything from the everyday, such as library services, to the profound, such as values held by librarians (high-quality reliable resources, academic freedom, open access, and so on). According to medical librarians who maintain library blogs, a typical month includes two to four contributors writing…