How the university lost its way: Sixteen threats to academic freedom
Journal article
Authors | Hayes, Dennis |
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Abstract | Are you happy to let someone tell you what to think? No one is. In universities, where academics have a particular role encapsulated in the phrase ‘academic freedom’—the responsibility to speak your mind and challenge conventional wisdom—they have a duty to refuse to be told what to think. My challenge to academics at the Higher Education Institutional Research (HEIR) Conference 2019 was that, in their unquestioning compliance with many familiar functions of the university today, they have willingly accepted innovations and impositions that do just that, tell you what to think. It is time to give them a wake-up call. |
Keywords | free speech; University; academic freedom |
Year | 2019 |
Journal | Postdigital Science and Education |
Publisher | Springer |
ISSN | 2524485X |
25244868 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-019-00079-2 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624379 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/624379 | |
Publication dates | 27 Nov 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 09 Jan 2020, 15:24 |
Accepted | Oct 2019 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International |
Contributors | University of Derby |
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