PERSPECTIVES: Academic Freedom and Free Speech, Are They the Same?

Columbia’s Bruce Robbins, writing in The Nation: “The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and is universal in its application. As it is generally understood, academic freedom applies only to professors, and it protects both their speech and their power to regulate the speech of their fellow academics. Students and other employees on campus cannot appeal to it; they must rely on the First Amendment.” Read more here.

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