academic freedom
noun
: freedom to teach or to learn without interference (as by government officials)
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The Professor Watchlist has been denounced by faculty associations as a blacklist that chills academic freedom.
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Stephanie A, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
Free speech and academic freedom are winning — at least for now.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
The school has been the courageous standard bearer of academic freedom in the assault on higher education.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Threats to academic freedom and hostility towards immigrants seemed eerily reminiscent of past authoritarian regimes.
—Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
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Stephanie A, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
Free speech and academic freedom are winning — at least for now.
—Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
The school has been the courageous standard bearer of academic freedom in the assault on higher education.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Threats to academic freedom and hostility towards immigrants seemed eerily reminiscent of past authoritarian regimes.
—Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Academic freedom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic%20freedom. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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