Academic Freedom

  

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Academic Freedom

Definition: Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom

Noun

1. The freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Academic Freedom

Synonyms: Educational freedom, Intellectual freedom. (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Academic Freedom

DomainTitle

Books

  • Academic Freedom (reference)

  • Academic Freedom 2: A Human Rights Report (Serial) (reference)

  • Academic Freedom in American Higher Education (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Academic Freedom

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Civil Liberties

East Timor

UNTAET respects academic freedom. (references)

Taiwan

The authorities respected academic freedom. (references)

Belarus

The Lukashenka regime restricts academic freedom. (references)

Human Rights

Ethiopia

On May 8, authorities arrested Berhanu Nega and Mesfin Woldemariam, two prominent academics and human rights activists; 3 weeks later, they were charged with inciting the AAU students to riot during an April 8 panel discussion on human rights and academic freedom that was organized by the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) and with organizing a clandestine political party, the Ethiopian Democratic League (EDL). (references)

Political Economy

Zimbabwe

Journalists also practiced self-censorship, and the Government continued to restrict academic freedom. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Academic Freedom

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

academic freedom

25
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Modern Translations: Academic Freedom

Language Translations for "academic freedom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

academische vrijheid. (various references)

   

French

  

liberté académique. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακαδημαϊκή ελευθερία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

libert accademica. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

academicay eedomfray.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

libertad de cátedra. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Academic Freedom

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-d-e-e-e-f-i-m-m-o-r"

-5 letters: forecaddie.

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Alternative Orthography: Academic Freedom


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 61 64 65 6D 69 63      46 72 65 65 64 6F 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01100001 01100100 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100011 00100000 01000110 01110010 01100101 01100101 01100100 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#109 &#105 &#99 &#32 &#70 &#114 &#101 &#101 &#100 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 0061 0064 0065 006D 0069 0063      0046 0072 0065 0065 0064 006F 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3569677071797569240847171708179

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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