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Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era pp 151–167Cite as

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Caught in the Crunch

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After a series of conferences held during the 1930s to rethink their 1915 Declaration on academic freedom, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Association of American Colleges (now the Association of American Colleges and Universities) issued the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, a two-page text that has been regarded as the definitive professional (though not legal) statement in the United States since that time. The first of two sections declares that college and university teachers are entitled to:

[…] full freedom in research and in the publication of results, subject to the adequate performance of their other academic duties; but research for pecuniary return should be based upon an understanding with the authorities of the institution.

[…] freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject. Limitations of academic freedom because of religious or other aims of the institution should be clearly stated in writing at the time of appointment. (3)

To govern is to structure the possible field of action of others.

—Michel Foucault (341)

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Messer-Davidow, E. (2010). Caught in the Crunch. In: Carvalho, E.J., Downing, D.B. (eds) Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era. Education, Politics, and Public Life. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117297_8

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