October 27, 2006

How Strong Is Academic Freedom in Community Colleges?

By ANN H. FRANKE

Community colleges may not immediately leap to mind as hotbeds of academic controversy. While the news offers the occasional story about the fate of an outspoken instructor, few people would view the two-year sector as harboring serious threats to academic freedom. The American Association of University Professors' censure list includes only a handful of community colleges. One could easily assume that academic freedom is alive and well in America's public two-year institutions.

Yet

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