ACADEMIC-FREEDOM - REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE OR BUSINESS AS USUAL

This essay focuses an the prospects of protecting academic freedom in American higher education. It addresses three specific areas of potent ial conflict and tension-pressures to divorce the protection of academ ic freedom from formal tenure systems, the increasing regulation of ha rassment and other forms of incivility in the collegiate community and a host of new and difficult dimensions of academic freedom in cybersp ace-for which the academic world is surprisingly ill prepared.