I believe our government is somewhat contradicting our academic freedom. Today in seminar, Dr. Huerta visited our class and he brought up academic freedom. He said that getting his tenure in a way protects his academic freedom. Before tenure, he said he must be careful on what he says or what he does. Academic freedom is expressed in the first amendment of our constitution.
Academic freedom is a very important subject to anybody dealing with academics.
Students should be allowed to express theirselves academically free by being allowed to focus in on the classes they want to take, after all we are paying to go to school when we get to college. Instead, we find ourselves trapped by the government who have passed strict laws and guidelines on education curriculum. Of course from our national government it gets carried down to state government but all in all, schools are forced to obey these guidelines and they are also allowed to enforce more guidelines upon their students. Now, dont you think that this is kind of violating our academic freedom. I believe it is.