His research interest is Natural Language Processing. As well as having been a lab instructor and research coordinator, he has won numerous awards and scholarships. He also has been active in service activities, including faculty senator, spirit ambassador, and actor in E-52. Most faculty members understand this principle's importance. Such understanding doesn't mean, however, that we don't also sometimes take the academic freedom issue for granted.
Academic freedom's a reality throughout the nation's higher education institutions.
We should not get so overconfident. Academic freedom exists, but it exists within constantly changing political, technological and cultural contexts that regularly redefine how we look at academic freedom and how it is necessary to develop ways to confront new assaults on it and to rectify old wrongs. The emergence, in the 1970s and 1980s, of Women's and African-American Studies departments in higher education is an example of transformations in higher education's views of history and information organization. These transformations were traceable in good part to an updated view of academic freedom which mandated that historically valid, but previously ignored, perspectives on history must be incorporated into academic life. There are also more recent examples of the way in which the academic freedom battle regularly takes on new form.