Academic Leaders Train a Lens on Academic Freedom

Free inquiry and academic freedom are central to the mission of higher education, but even a panel featuring some of American academe's leading figures found much to discuss in trying to pin down the basics of what exactly those crucial qualities comprise.

A two-day conference on "Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times," held here last week at the New School for Social Research, featured sessions on topics like "academic freedom and the origins and role of the

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