"I totally respect academic freedom," she said.
So would, say, respected academic realists such as John Mearsheimer or Stephen Walt or Barry Posen approve of these sentiments?
My brother, John Daniel, who has died from cancer, aged 70, was an inspiring teacher, respected academic and lifelong campaigner for justice in South Africa.
One of the biggest paradoxes in postgraduate study is that students are trained both to be highly innovative and to respect academic tradition.
From humble beginnings as a university college in 1876 with just 99 students, Bristol has become an internationally respected academic powerhouse with around 12,500 undergraduates and 3,500 postgraduates.
During my PhD, I collected and bookmarked advice from respected academic blogs such as Explorations of Style and The Thesis Whisperer (which boasts over 2m page views, and counting).
He did not respect academic literary criticism, and the emergence of the university English department as a home for critics was possibly one of the reasons for the turn in his career around 1945.
Never before in the Islamic republic's 30-year history had a woman played such a high-profile political role, prompting some to compare Rahnavard – a sculptor and respected academic – with Michelle Obama.
The targets include lawyers looking into the mass disappearance of 43 students, a highly respected academic who helped write anti-corruption legislation, two of Mexico's most influential journalists and an American representing victims of sexual abuse by the police.
Not only is Paul's second blockbusting action thriller about to be released, but his brother, respected academic Mark Greengrass of Sheffield University, is to launch another work of some significance: a study of peace and reform in France between 1576 and 1585, entitled Governing Passions.
"Student entrepreneurs don't respect academic silos," Peter Tufano, then a professor at HBS and now at the University of Oxford, said when i-lab opened late in 2011, "but nevertheless often found it hard to connect across school boundaries". True to its mission, the i-lab already has hosted 265 student teams in its 100-day Venture Residency Program.
