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ERIC Number: EJ486690
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-1546
On Madness in the Academy.
Sassower, Raphael
Journal of Higher Education, v65 n4 p473-85 Jul-Aug 1994
Although colleges and universities should provide a climate in which external conventions and social pressures are absent, and individualism and intellectual freedom can flourish, they no longer do so. Higher education institutions should detach themselves from commercial culture and urge intellectual passions. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Environment, College Role, Higher Education, Intellectual Freedom, Organizational Climate
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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