Professorial Speech and The Fate of Academic Freedom

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Florida Atlantic University

What is academic freedom? Here’s what it isn’t: a license for professors do whatever they want. Consider the case of James Tracy, a tenured associate professor of communications who was fired by Florida Atlantic University in early 2016. Tracy has repeatedly asserted that the...

scholarly journals Cheryl A. Rubenberg 1946–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-172
Author(s):  
Valerie J. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
American Government ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Florida Atlantic University ◽  
International University ◽  
Florida International University ◽  
The University

Cheryl A. Rubenberg, independent analyst and former associate professor of political science at Florida International University, died on 16 June 2017 at age seventy-one. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, she earned her bachelor's in political science from Hunter College, her master's in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, and her Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Miami (1979). After a year at Florida Atlantic University, she joined the political science faculty at Florida International University. A student who took her class on American government wrote that Professor Rubenberg “changed my life forever” by exposing the business interests that motivate leaders of American government and media.

scholarly journals The Degree of Practicing Academic Freedom at the Jordanian Public and Private Universities in the Northern Region from the Point of View of the Faculty Members

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Rawan Kheder Youssef Abu-Shaqra ◽  
Ali Mohammed Ali Smadi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Academic Rank ◽  
Public And Private

The study aimed at identifying the degree of practicing academic freedom by faculty members in Jordanian publicand private universities in the Northern Region from the point of view of the faculty members. The researcherapplied the analytical descriptive survey method. The study population was composed of faculty members ofJordanian public and private universities in the Northern Region for the year 2017/2018. Their number was 1210faculty members: 893 males and 308 females. The study sample was 445 males and 155 females, 50% of the studypopulation. To achieve the objectives of the study, a study tool was developed. It is a questionnaire consisting of 50items distributed on 5 domains. The findings of the study showed that the degree of practicing academic freedom byfaculty members in Jordanian public and private universities in the Northern Region from the point of view of thefaculty members on all domains of the tool was medium. Furthermore, there were no statistically significantdifferences at the level of significance (0.05 α ≤) in the degree of practicing academic freedom by faculty membersin Jordanian universities due to the variable of the type of university, and the existence of differences in the degree ofpracticing academic freedom by faculty members in Jordanian public and private universities in the Northern Regioncan be attributed to the academic rank between those whose rank is professor and associate professor on the one hand,and the rank of assistant professor on the other, for the benefit of the rank of professor and associate professor, ie, infavor of the upper rank. The researcher recommended the need to increase the practice of academic freedom by thefaculty members at the Jordanian public and private universities in the Northern Region.

The difficulties facing academics in the Palestinian universities in Hebron and the ways to overcome them | الصعوبات التي تواجه الأكاديميين في الجامعات الفلسطينية في محافظة الخليل وسبل التغلب عليها

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-59
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic Rank ◽  
Academic Difficulties ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Years Of Service ◽  
Palestinian Universities

The study aimed to identify the difficulties facing academics in Palestinian universities and ways to overcome them from the viewpoint of academics themselves, according to variables: (gender, educational qualification, academic rank, years of service, age, type of university). The study followed the descriptive analytical method. The sample of the study consisted of (80) faculty members working in four Universities in Hebron (Hebron University, QOU, Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine Technical University (Aroub Branch)). A questionnaire consisting of two fields and (26) items, (16) items, was used to measure administrative and financial difficulties, and (10) items were used to measure academic difficulties. The results of the study indicated that the difficulties facing academics in Palestinian universities in the Hebron Governorate are generally high, and administrative and financial difficulties came in the foreground, followed by academic difficulties. The results of the absence of statistically significant differences showed the difficulties facing academics in Palestinian universities in the Hebron Governorate attributable to the variables: (gender, and years of service), while the presence of statistically significant differences showed the difficulties facing academics in Palestinian universities in the Hebron Governorate attributable to the qualification variable Scientific and in favor of masters, and the presence of differences according to academic rank and in favor of an associate professor and professor doctor, and the presence of differences according to age and in favor of those who were their age (from 50 years or more), as well as the presence of differences by type of university and in favor of public universities. The results indicated several suggested ways to overcome these difficulties, such as applying justice and equality in dealing with academics and providing full academic freedom to faculty members. The study came out with a number of recommendations, including: (limiting bureaucracy and routine in implementing administrative decisions, allocating sufficient budgets for scientific research, adopting the system of external scholarships and sabbatical, flexibility and humility in dealing with faculty members, analyzing the reality of academic work and the difficulties it suffers from). Keywords: difficulties, academic, universities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- هدفت الدراسة إلى تعرف الصعوبات التي تواجه الأكاديميين في الجامعات الفلسطينية وسبل التغلب عليها من وجهة نظر الأكاديميين أنفسهم، وفقاً لمتغيرات: (الجنس، المؤهل العلمي، الرتبة الأكاديمية، سنوات الخدمة، العمر، نوع الجامعة). اتبعت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي التحليلي. وتكونت عينة الدراسة من (80) عضو هيئة تدريس يعملون في أربع جامعات في محافظة الخليل: (جامعة الخليل، جامعة القدس المفتوحة، جامعة بوليتكنك فلسطين، جامعة فلسطين التقنية فرع العروب). تم استخدام استبانة مكونة من مجالين و(26) فقرة منها(16) فقرة لقياس الصعوبات الإدارية والمالية و(10) فقرات لقياس الصعوبات الأكاديمية. وأشارت نتائج الدراسة إلى أن الصعوبات التي تواجه الأكاديميين في الجامعات الفلسطينية في محافظة الخليل مرتفعة بشكل عام, وجاءت الصعوبات الإدارية والمالية في المقدمة تلتها الصعوبات الأكاديمية. كما أظهرت النتائج عدم وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين الصعوبات التي تواجه الأكاديميين في الجامعات الفلسطينية في محافظة الخليل تعزى لمتغيري: (الجنس، وسنوات الخدمة)، في حين تبين وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين الصعوبات التي تواجه الأكاديميين في الجامعات الفلسطينية في محافظة الخليل تعزى لمتغير المؤهل العلمي ولصالح حملة الماجستير، ووجود فروق حسب الرتبة الأكاديمية ولصالح أستاذ مشارك وأستاذ دكتور، ووجود فروق حسب العمر ولصالح من كانت أعمارهم (من 50 عاما فأكثر)، وكذلك وجود فروق حسب نوع الجامعة ولصالح الجامعات الحكومية. وبينت النتائج عدداً من السبل المقترحة للتغلب على تلك الصعوبات، كتطبيق العدالة والمساواة في التعامل مع الأكاديميين، وتوفير الحرية الأكاديمية الكاملة لأعضاء هيئة التدريس. وخرجت الدراسة بعدد من التوصيات، منها: (الحد من البيروقراطية والروتين في تنفيذ القرارات الإدارية، وتخصيص موازنات كافية للبحث العلمي، واعتماد نظام البعثات الخارجية والتفرغ العلمي، والمرونة والتواضع في التعامل مع أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية، وتحليل واقع العمل الأكاديمي والصعوبات التي يعاني منها). الكلمات المفتاحية: الصعوبات، الأكاديمي، الجامعات.

scholarly journals Academic Freedom, Canadian Labour Law and the Scope of Intra-Mural Expression

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Michael Lynk*
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Bargaining Unit ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Collective Agreement ◽  
University Leadership ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

The Murray Library is the central library at the University of Saskatchewan. In January 2013, the Library Dean announced that ten support staff in the University’s library system, including several working at the Murray Library, were to be laid off. All were women. After each staff member had been individually informed by the Dean that she was being laid off, she was told to collect her possessions and was then immediately escorted off the campus property. The layoffs were part of a University-wide cost cutting measure, which would ultimately result in 40 layoffs among the support staff across the campus. The support staff were unionized, in a bargaining unit represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees. The University librarians were also unionized, in a separate bargaining unit represented by the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association. In the librarians’ collective agreement was a broadly drafted provision protecting academic freedom. Among other things, the provision guaranteed the right of the unionized librarians “…to criticize the University and the Association without suffering censorship or discipline.” This provision did not contain any language which would restrict the scope of its protection to reasonable or responsible comments. This right of faculty and librarians to criticize the university leadership is known, among the various features that make up academic freedom, as the freedom of intra-mural expression.1   * Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Western University, London, Ontario, where he teaches labour law, human rights law, and constitutional law.1 See generally Matthew Finkin & Robert Post, For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009), ch 5.

scholarly journals White Free Speech: The Fraser Event and its Enlightenment Legacies

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Goldie Osuri
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Whiteness Theory ◽  
White Hegemony

This essay discusses the 2005 Australia-wide controversy about the white supremacist comments made by Macquarie University academic Associate Professor Andrew Fraser. It locates the means by which this white supremacism manifested itself not only through Fraser comments, but also through arguments surrounding free speech/academic freedom. Using whiteness theory and its examination of whiteness as an Enlightenment legacy, Osuri argues that the collusion between Fraser’s white supremacism and the free speech/academic freedom argument is based on a disavowal of how whiteness operates, as Aileen Moreton-Robinson describes it, as an epistemological and ontological a priori, an embodied form of knowledge-production, and collective white hegemony.

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