University Values

Articles, essays, and opinion pieces promoting discussion and understanding of university values, including values of access, accountability, academic freedom, autonomy and social responsibility

In Venezuela, the university space is shrinking. Government policies are creating a man-made disaster with the potential to affect the quality of the country's higher education system and the lives of its scholars, students, and society for generations.

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Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua | The UNESCO General Conference adopted the Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (Recommendation) in 1997. The document was passed without a dissenting vote, with four countries issuing reservations.(1) This moment was a watershed in the

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Alexander Sodiqov, my PhD student in comparative politics at the University of Toronto, was detained by the security services in Tajikistan on June 16, 2014. While no formal charges have been filed to date, the government-sponsored press appears to be

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In his criticism of my view on academic freedom, Klaus Beiter touches upon some puzzles of academic freedom. I want to make some observations on these puzzles, explaining in the process where I think Beiter has misunderstood me and where

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