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Jorgensen, James D.; Helms, Lelia B. – Review of Higher Education, 2008
The Supreme Court first affirmed the importance of academic freedom in 1957. Yet in subsequent cases, First Amendment precedent has displaced the concept of academic freedom to resolve disputes among competing interests on public campuses, primarily in favor of institutions. This paper draws on the concepts of path dependence and policy space to…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Constitutional Law, Stakeholders, Court Litigation