November 7, 2008
Academic Freedom and Tenure
To the Editor:
Stanley Fish says that academic freedom "is just a fancy name for being allowed to do your job," and thus inferentially in no need of special protection ("Academic Freedom Is Not a Divine Right," The Chronicle Review, September 5). Roger Bowen says that it is so transcendentally important that we should try to write it into the U.S. Constitution, thus making tenure expendable ("A Faustian Bargain for Academic Freedom," The Chronicle, October 3). Fish and Bowen disagree
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