This morning.

Further to reports earlier this year that UCD was considering amending the definition of academic freedom to allow the university to ‘expand further into countries which do not share the same values as those in the western world’…

Via The Times:

Academics at the college have accused the university of attempting to trade academic freedom for profit with one staff member saying it should be “absolutely ashamed” of the proposal.

….A working group had proposed an addendum to the definition of academic freedom at the university. The group said that a university with a large international footprint needed to “consider and appraise the risk of tension arising between the obligations regarding academic freedom and the strategic imperative to internationalise higher education“….

UCD proposal to ease protection for academic freedom ‘shameful’ (Brian Mahon, The Times)

Related: UCD agrees 50 year ‘free’ lease for Confucius Institute (Irish Times, April 17, 2015)

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