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The amendment allows the government to pay for political science research only if the director of the National Science Foundation certifies the research as “promoting national security or the economic interests of the United States.”

Senate votes to defund political science research, save tuition assistance in budget bill | Inside Higher Ed

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At universities nationwide, employment of administrators jumped 60 percent from 1993 to 2009, 10 times the growth rate for tenured faculty. "Administrative bloat is clearly contributing to the overall cost of higher education," says Jay Greene, an education professor at the University of Arkansas. In a 2010 study, Greene found that from 1993 to 2007, spending on administration rose almost twice as fast as funding for research and teaching at 198 leading U.S. universities. Some state schools are reexamining pay for top managers.

The Troubling Dean-to-Professor Ratio - Businessweek

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In an online statement posted Monday morning, university officials acknowledged the searches and explained their reasoning. The statement eased the concerns of some faculty members but did not alleviate them completely, and professors said they expected that e-mail privacy would be the topic of a full-throated discussion at the next faculty meeting, in early April.

Harvard Offers Explanation for Search of E-Mail Accounts - NYTimes.com

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Administrators at Harvard University secretly accessed the email accounts of 16 of its deans last fall while looking for the source of a media leak, The Boston Globe (fake city, real newspaper) is reporting. Administrators spied specifically on deans who were involved with the investigation into widespread cheating and plagiarism that embarrassed the elite university last September. 125 students were implicated in the scandal that involved collaborating on essays and sharing test answers.

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Al Fanar (Arabic for "the lighthouse") is a new publication covering Arab higher education, with reports and commentary coming from throughout the Middle East. The new publication "seeks to be a watchdog for academic freedom, will monitor whether women, minority groups, and the poor have full access to education, and will champion universities as beacons of arts, culture, and scholarship."

Amid concerns on academic freedom in UAE, conference on Arab higher education canceled | Inside Higher Ed

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We object to the Ku Klux Klan but defend their right to profess radical hatred.

A new attack on academic freedom | Colorado Springs Gazette

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Suggesting that the bill is about “academic freedom” is frankly deceitful. The bill has two clear purposes, to excuse students who oppose what is being taught based on the religious beliefs they brought from home, and to excuse teachers who oppose what they are asked to teach for the same religious reasons.

Academic freedom shouldn't mean academic disaster | OUDaily.com | EDITORIAL

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The Italian philosopher Tommaso Campanella intervened in the first trial against Galileo Galilei with his courageous The Defense of Galileo (written in 1616, published in 1622). Richard Hofstader discusses the historic significance of the tract here.

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Ursula Lindsey, "Canceled Conference Revives Concerns About Academic Freedom in the Persian Gulf," The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 25, 2013.

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Brooklyn College and its political science department acted properly and in the spirit of academic freedom when they invited and sponsored (not endorsed) the pro-boycott speakers. And the city and state politicians who delivered threats of economic sanction while invoking academic freedom were acting improperly and in ignorance of what academic freedom means.

Stanley Fish, "Academic Freedom in Brooklyn: Part Two," New York Times, February 25, 2013.

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The other barred source is the one that got the instructor -- Stephanie Wolfe -- scrutiny this week. She banned articles from Fox News, writing: "The tagline 'Fox News' makes me cringe. Please do not subject me to this biased news station. I would almost rather you print off an article from the Onion."