And here's another take on academic freedom, which transplant99 clearly fails to comprehend:
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v5n6.html
Quote:
Academic freedom and tenure are two sides of the same coin. Following an initial statement of principles in 1915, the current view of tenure was established in 1940 when the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Association of American Colleges (AAC) officially sanctioned it for purposes of preserving faculty's right to academic freedom. Legally, it assures faculty the right to pursue any line of inquiry in the course of their teaching or research without being censored, penalized or fired by university administrators.
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Again, empahasis mine.