15th Annual Teaching Effectiveness Conference

Why is Academic Freedom Controversial?

Saturday, November 4, 2006
Eben Holden Hall, St. Lawrence University
8:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Register online by October 20, 2006

DRAFT

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Event

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8:30 -9:00	Registration		Eben Holden Lobby
9:00 - 9:15	Welcome	Dan Sullivan, President, St. Lawrence University	Eben Holden
9:15 - 10:45	Keynote	Liberal 'Bias' and Academic Freedom Have David Horowitz and his Students for Academic Freedom radically redefined the term so that it means "freedom of students to express their opinions" rather than "freedom of facuty from legislative oversight"? Dr. Michael Berube, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Pennsylvania State Univeristy.	Eben Holden
10:45 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:00	Breakout Sessions	I. Classroom management issues Reading: "Should I Have asked John to Cool It? Standards of Reason in the Classroom" by Michael Berube. II. The difference between academic freedom and educational responsibility Reading: “Academic Freedom and Educational Responsibility” by Board of Directors of Association of American Colleges and Universities III. Academic Freedom and racism, sexism and heteronormativity Reading: Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks IV. Discussion of AAUP statement on academic freedom Reading: AAUP statement on academic freedom
12:00 - 1:15	Lunch with Roundtables	I. Does technology affect, enhance or impede academic freedom? II. Academic freedom at public and private institutions III. Does private funding affect academic freedom in scientific research? IV. Academic freedom and expression in the arts V. The role of the professoriate in the state and national political arean
1:15 - 2:15	Panel	Two Case Studies: How Faculty Are Affected by Academic Freedom. Dr. Michael Berube, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Pennsylvania State Univeristy.

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