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Mohammad Ali Ashraf; Sarker Rafij Ahmed Ratan; Tanzila Amir; Mohd Hasanur Raihan Joarder; Abu Rashed Osman – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of standardization, accreditation process on academic freedom and quality learning in higher education institutes (HEIs). In addition, this study explores the mediating effects of academic freedom between standardization, accreditation and learning. Design/methodology/approach: To attain the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Accreditation (Institutions), Academic Freedom, Educational Quality
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Balyer, Aydin; Tabancali, Erkan – European Journal of Educational Management, 2022
The main objective of current study was to determine the opinions of adjunct faculty members regarding the flexible and precariat form of employment policies at universities in Turkey. The research was conducted qualitatively. The participants were 16 adjunct faculty members who were chosen with purposive sampling method. An interview technique…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Kabata, Victor – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2022
This paper sought to establish the extent to which users' legitimate rights are safeguarded in Learning Management Systems (LMS); specifically, on the Blackboard system used for teaching at Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi (SUAD). First, the users' legitimate rights that required protection were identified. Second, the security and privacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrated Learning Systems, Higher Education, Computer Security
Baskerville, Stephen – James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2021
In this Martin Center policy brief, "Scholastic Gag Orders: NDAs, Mandatory Arbitration, and the Legal Threat to Academics," Stephen Baskerville explores how non-disparagement agreements (NDAs) and mandatory arbitration (MA) provide a veil of legally enforced secrecy, shielding administrations from negative publicity, professional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Freedom of Speech, Legal Problems, Disclosure
American Association of University Professors, 2017
This report concerns actions taken by the administration of Spalding University to terminate the appointment of tenured professor of social work Erlene Grise-Owens after she criticized the administration's handling of an incident involving a student who brought a gun to a campus parking lot. The social work school's chair immediately alerted…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Tenure, College Faculty, Teacher Dismissal
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Maxwell, Bruce; Waddington, David I.; McDonough, Kevin – Theory and Research in Education, 2019
Why do society and the courts so readily recognize university and college teachers' academic freedom but just as readily deny primary and secondary school teachers the same right? To investigate this question, this article considers teachers' work in light of the standard justifications for granting academic freedom in higher education: that…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Higher Education
American Association of University Professors, 2018
This report concerns actions taken by the administration of University of Nebraska-Lincoln to suspend lecturer, Courtney Lawton from her teaching responsibilities--initially, for stated safety concerns. Lawton is a sixth-year doctoral student with a part-time appointment as lecturer for the 2017-18 academic year. She received threats after a video…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Tenure, College Faculty, Teacher Dismissal
American Association of University Professors, 2018
St. Edward's University is a private, four-year institution affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church that traces its beginnings to 1877, when the Congregation of Holy Cross, an order of French missionaries, founded St. Edward's Academy on farmland south of Austin, Texas. St. Edward's received its charter as a college in 1885 and as a university…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Church Related Colleges, Catholic Educators, College Faculty
American Association of University Professors, 2017
This report concerns actions taken by the administration of the Community College of Aurora, during the fourth week of the fall 2016 semester, to terminate the appointment of part-time instructor of philosophy, Nathanial Bork, without affordance of academic due process. Mr. Bork was dismissed after conveying his intention to send to the college's…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Tenure, Community Colleges, College Faculty
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Siddiqui, Sharmin; Ahamed, Md. Mostaq – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The research aims to explore what the teachers know and believe about their rights and responsibilities in a teaching profession and what the realities that reflect the inconsistencies between their beliefs and actions. The research mainly investigates how the vertical segregation in educational institutions along with the demographic and cultural…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Rights, Teacher Role
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Hoepner, Jacqui – Australian Universities' Review, 2019
What do attacks on 'unpalatable' research reveal about academic freedom? When academic work is curtailed, this cherished yet misunderstood concept is undermined. Silencing based on moral objection -- rather than wrongdoing -- suggests academic freedom is more constrained than we believe. On paper, academic freedom is rule-bound, yet 'dangerous'…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Moral Values, Scholarship, Teacher Rights
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McDonald, Theodore W.; Stockton, James D.; Landrum, R. Eric – College Quarterly, 2018
An alarming occurrence in academia involves the discipline of faculty, under the guise of violating civility or collegiality codes, for engaging in what should be protected academic free speech. This often occurs when unprincipled and/or corporate-minded administrators seek to punish or dissuade faculty from challenging or questioning their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Discipline, Collegiality
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Alsharif, Talal A. – Journal of Educational Issues, 2019
The current study aimed at identifying the indicators of practicing governance in Saudi universities in the light of the principles of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It also underlined the challenges facing governance practice and introduced a proposal for governance principles in Saudi universities. Descriptive…
Descriptors: Governance, Universities, Deans, Administrator Attitudes
Schalin, Jay – John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, 2016
Academic freedom is at the very center of the modern university; it promotes discovery and teaching of the best possible knowledge. The need for improved regulations governing academic freedom is currently growing as a century-long consensus that focused on granting faculty members the most expansive academic freedom rights is breaking down; other…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Universities, College Faculty, Freedom of Speech
American Association of University Professors, 2014
The management of university-generated intellectual property is complex and carries significant consequences for those involved in direct negotiations (faculty inventors, companies, university administrators, attorneys, and invention-management agents) as well as those who may be affected (competing companies, the public, patients, and the wider…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, Teacher Associations, Research and Development, Standard Setting
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