Academic freedom is the right of both teachers and students to do what they want as long as it is not violating the rules of the academe.

1. ACADEMIC
FREEDOM
Presented by:
HAYDEE C. PALACIO

2. Freedom granted to
faculty to research
and teach according
to their interests.
Freedom granted to
academic institutions to
determine professional
standards for the
academy.
Academic freedom is the
freedom of teachers and
students to teach, study,
and pursue knowledge and
research without
unreasonable interference
or restriction from law,
institutional regulations,
or public pressure.

5. Proponents of Academic
Freedom
Argued that academic
freedom was a fundamental
necessity for the production
of true knowledge.

6. Nicolai Bukharin –favour for
socialist society, and agreed that
academic freedom was a necessity
John Baker – found the
influential society for freedom

7. Importance of academic freedom
1. Freedom of inquiry by students and faculty
members is essential to the mission of the
academy; it is essential for the advance of
science and therefore it is important for
the whole society.
2. Scholarship cannot flourish in an
atmosphere of suspicion and distrust.
Teachers and students must always remain
free to inquire, to study and to evaluate.

8. Establishes a faculty
member’s right to
remain true to his or
her pedagogical
philosophy and
intellectual
commitments.
The right to seek
redress or request a
hearing if they believe
their rights have been
violated.
Both faculty members
and students can
engage in intellectual
debate without fear of
censorship or
retaliation.
Gives faculty members
substantial latitude in
deciding how to teach
the courses for which
they are responsible.
What it
does do?

9. Academic freedom
protects faculty
members and students
from reprisals for
disagreeing with
administrative policies
In teaching it means that
both faculty or proposals
members and
students can make
comparisons and contrasts
between subjects taught in
a course and any field of
human knowledge or period
of history
The right
to
challenge
one
another’s
views.
But not
to
penalize
them for
holding
them

10. What It
Doesn’t
Do?
Academic freedom does not
mean a faculty member can
harass, threaten, intimidate,
ridicule, or impose his or her
Students academic freedom does views on students.
not deny faculty members the
right to require students to
master course material and the
fundamentals of the disciplines
that faculty teach.
Neither academic freedom
nor tenure protects an
incompetent teacher from
losing his or her job. Thus, it
does not grant an
unqualified of lifetime
employment.

11. Academic freedom does not protect
faculty members from colleague or
students challenges to or
disagreement with their educational
philosophy and practices.
Does not give students or faculty the right
to ignore college or university
regulations, though it does give faculty
and students the right to criticize
regulations they believe are unfair.
Does not protect faculty members
from non-university penalties if they
break the law.

12. Protect students or faculty
from disciplinary action,
but it does require that
they receive fair treatment
and due process
Protect faculty members from
sanctions for professional
misconduct, though sanctions
require clear proof established
through due process.
Academic
freedom does not:
a faculty member who
repeatedly skips class or
refuses to teach the classes or
subject matter assigned.
Protects a faculty member from
various sanctions – from denial of
merit raises, to denial of
sabbatical requests, to the loss of
desirable teaching and committee
assignments.