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Academic freedom verdict at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

By Alliance Alert

Inside Higher Ed: A special faculty panel investigating an academic freedom dispute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has [finished its inquiry] . . . [David French], senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said via e-mail that the report is correct in many respects. 'We agree that Dr. Howell should have received due process before his dismissal, we agree that he did not receive any due process, we agree that students do not have a right not to be offended and can in fact be directly challenged by their professors, we agree that professors in religion courses have the same academic freedom as professors teaching any other course at the university, and we agree that the university should adopt policies that clearly outline the rights and responsibilities of adjuncts in a manner that protects their academic freedom.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 18, 2010 (boomark / email).