How to Use academic freedom in a Sentence

academic freedom

noun

• Free speech and academic freedom are winning — at least for now.
  — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
• The choice to send such a signal is of course part of a teacher’s academic freedom.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2021
• But tenure is not just about academic freedom.
  — Time, 1 Oct. 2025
• The group says using the word in that way is clearly covered by academic freedom.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2022
• His case set off a debate about whether there should be limits to tenure and academic freedom.
  — Scott Travis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• It was also seen as a win for the academic freedom of professors.
  — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2021
• Critics say that could chill academic freedom.
  — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
• Liu was drawn to the US by its academic freedom and resources.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
• The past several years, of course, have seen an erosion of academic freedom.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
• Patton’s name is now known, and should be, to defenders of academic freedom.
  — Greg Weiner, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• Why do colleges have academic freedom?
  — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 18 Feb. 2026
• Donald is not trying to violate their rights of free speech or academic freedom.
  — Walter E Block, Oc Register, 21 July 2025
• Some of the major flash points will be around human rights, academic freedom, climate change, and supply chains.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021
• The roiling debates have even opened up rifts among champions of academic freedom.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• April 17 was a dark day for academic freedom in the United States.
  — Jonathan Zimmerman, Twin Cities, 4 May 2024
• Here’s hoping that universities will have the courage to level up on academic freedom rather than down.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
• Twice in the last century, the Supreme Court has come out in favor of academic freedom.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 June 2021
• Magill said Penn must ensure that the school’s academic freedom and free exchange of ideas endure.
  — David Voreacos, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
• Defenders of the law have argued that the city’s academic freedom would remain untouched.
  — Amy Qin and, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2020
• Fleming contends the effort to fire him is an encroachment on academic freedom.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2019
• The government has denied that the law threatens academic freedom.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 3 Sep. 2020
• In this case, a flawed process led to a flawed outcome that will have the consequence (intended or not) of eroding academic freedom.
  — Kim Cobb, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2021
• That could chill the very academic freedom that the administration claims to be working to restore.
  — Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 27 June 2026
• Tenure protects academic freedom and makes sure that researchers’ jobs are secure even if their studies and projects don’t always pan out.
  — Darby Saxbe, Slate Magazine, 4 Apr. 2017
• The efforts to control tenure have upset some faculty members, who see them as a threat to academic freedom.
  — Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 18 May 2021
• Despite the attack on women, Black women and academic freedom, Gay may still get the last laugh.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2024
• The movement led to academic freedom, a set of principles widely in place nationwide.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2022
• The manual covers issues such as academic freedom, salary schedules, workload and code of ethics.
  — Anne Ryman, azcentral, 14 Mar. 2018
• Ultimately, the critics’ complaint is that the gift is a challenge to academic freedom.
  — Daniele Struppa, WSJ, 20 May 2018
• The government has stepped up censorship of social media, suppressed academic freedom and thrown many of its critics in jail.
  — Brian Spegele, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2022