Sentence examples for defended academic from inspiring English sources

Similarly, he supported the new United Nations, offered timely opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee's hunt for subversive ideas and people, and defended academic freedom at American universities in the 1940s and '50s.

These are training for democratic citizenship, cultivating critical thinking and defending academic freedom.

Mr. Friday said he and other Southern university administrators fighting Washington were defending academic freedom.

Had Nathan Pusey panicked?Mr Pusey said he had called in the police to defend academic freedom.

Many presidents, in these circumstances, have had to defend academic freedom against those who need reminding of our national traditions.

"They are ill-disposed to defend academic liberty because they do not understand its centrality to the academy".

In 1998, the American Association of University Professors gave him its highest administrator award for defending academic freedom and free speech.

A discussion about how American universities can balance their responsibility to defend academic freedom with their need to be engaged with China, the world's most dynamic economy.

He went on: "Sport helps to promote the university, but there would be no academic product worth selling without faculty to defend academic standards and deliver quality instruction.

(Fish himself defends academic freedom on these practical grounds, but seems to think others are more starry-eyed. Maybe he's talking to the wrong professors).

A. Lawrence Lowell, who succeeded Eliot in 1909, wrote a seminal treatise defending academic freedom and inquiry that set a standard for American higher education.