Funding Academic Freedom

From: Academe | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Bowen, Roger W | Copyright information

Academic freedom is not free. What does this cliche mean? Recently, two faculty members at Benedict College in South Carolina challenged a new grading policy imposed by the college president and were dismissed for "insubordination." They dared to question a mandate forcing faculty to assign grades to first-year students based on the formula of 60 percent for effort (attendance) and 40 percent for actual performance. One of the dismissed faculty members wrote that the president's grading polic...

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