I compare the historical origins and current conceptions of university autonomy and academic freedom in Latin America and the U.S. I argue that the core distinction between the U.S. and Latin America is the locus of autonomy. In the U.S., university autonomy is a bottom-up consequence of the academic freedom of the professors. Autonomy is the academic freedom of the university as a community of scholars. In Latin America, conversely, academic freedom is understood top-down as a consequence of the institutional autonomy of the university. Academic freedom is vested in the university, and the freedom of the faculty derives from that of the university. I explore the historical origins of this variance and the shortcomings of the Latin American version of autonomy: its blurring of the unique knowledge-based service of universities to society and the lack of scholarship on academic freedom in the region it begets.
Chile's Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo-ANID
ANID CIE-160007
ANID CIE-160007
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Konular | Alan Eğitimleri |
Bölüm | Research Articles |
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Proje Numarası | ANID CIE-160007 |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 30 Haziran 2021 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2021 Cilt: 2 Sayı: 1 |