AN INSTRUCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION, WHO HAD COMPLETED THE FIRST MONTH OF A 1-YEAR CONTRACT, WAS INFORMED THAT HIS CONTRACT WOULD NOT BE RENEWED FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR THOUGH HE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO COMPLETE HIS CURRENT CONTRACT. IN PROTEST AGAINST THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE OF CUBA, HE HAD PICKETED THE LOCAL POST OFFICE, AND THIS ACTION LED TO A…

This study of nonprint media censorship focuses on the American Library Association's position, follows up actual censorship cases, and examines selected libraries' attitudes and policies toward nonprint materials. It concludes that a "primacy of print" attitude has established a de facto form of censorship, and recommends seven correctional…

This article is concerned with those freedoms inherent in successful science teaching and summarizes recent actions to insure the continuance of those freedoms. The controversy surrounding the teaching of evolution in schools is discussed in detail, with emphasis on educational positions and legal actions. (MA)

Reviews the recent history of the Fifth Amendment focusing primarily on its use by government officials during the Iran-Contra hearings and by teachers during the McCarthy era hearings. Concludes that social studies teachers must encourage discussion of the political and philosophical issues contained in the Iran-Contra hearings. (JDH)

Argues that Accuracy in Academia (AIA) is a polemic group that sees the truth only from its own ultraconservative viewpoint. Provides an overview of precautions professors can take to avoid confrontations with groups like AIA. (MS)

Argues that it is inappropriate to view academic freedom in public secondary schools as a constitutional right, and that state, rather than federal, courts have the primary responsibility for determining what is taught in public schools. Since education is entrusted to the state, then so may decisions about academic freedom. (MLF)

During the 1930s in Canada, teaching and research in the universities were conducted in the belief that truth was attained only through free inquiry, rigorous criticism of competing theories, and the deployment of arguments untainted by dogmatism and appeals to authority. Problems that university scholars had when they were outspoken in their…

Appraises developments at censured institutions for the year preceding February 15, 1974. Included are: Alabama State University, Texas A&M University, Amarillo College, Broward Community College, Indiana State University, Detroit Institute of Technology, University of Florida, Grambling College, Marshall University and 29 other institutions. (PG)

Article discussed the course of individual freedom in the United States and the influence of the Federal Government as well as the Supreme Court. (RK)

Reviews the case of Dr. David E. Green who was denied reappointment because of his actions following the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (HS)

The courts, while acknowledging in theory that public schools should provide students with a wide range of reading materials, are ruling against this in practice. The rationale in the latest court cases lies in determining the hierarchy of power, but the result comes dangerously close to legitimating censorship. (Author/RL)

Asserts that liberal education has the promotion of intellectual development as a primary goal, and that to encourage intellectual progress, a context of intellectual freedom is necessary. Offers a set of principles of academic freedom that it suggests are foundational to the promotion of intellectual development. (EV)

Addresses three aspects of the issue of intellectual freedom: the nature of intellectual freedom as defined by the American Library Association's "Intellectual Freedom Manual," the underlying philosophy implicit in that expression, and an alternative to both the manual and its philosophical presuppositions. Attempts to define the…

Academic freedom is invoked as both an individual freedom and an institutional bulwark. "Parate v. Isibor," recently decided by the Sixth Circuit, illustrates many of the problems that the concept causes litigants and courts. The unfortunate compromise resolution trivializes the principles ostensibly protected by academic freedom. (MLF)