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Learning from UT Austin about Academic Freedom and Community Education

BY Z. W. TAYLOR, PAT SOMERS, AND JOSH CHILDS  The AAUP outlines a four-pronged definition of academic freedom, although it is not codified by any specific case law or statute. Dozens of educational organizations—including the American Psychological Association, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the National Education Association, among many others—have endorsed…