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Academic freedom: The foundational value of higher education

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Academic freedom: The foundational value of higher education

Universities must affirm the importance of free speech if they are to avoid becoming echo chambers (article for Cieo think tank)

Jim Butcher
Aug 19, 2022
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Universities should be places where people are free to share and develop their views, including staff and students who dissent from prevailing orthodoxies. This simple principle has long underpinned progressive views of higher education. Yet universities seem to have forgotten its importance.

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