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For reasons that are at times justifiable and at times indefensible, academic freedom has been constrained in a variety of ways, and not only by institutional or political authorities. Using illustrations drawn from Canada and beyond, this article tracks the history and progress of academic freedom and takes stock of its status in the first part of the 21st century. It explores the origins of academic freedom, the evolving ways in which it has been qualified and even impeded, the particularity of Canadian approaches to its values and practices, and the ongoing challenges universities may face sustaining academic freedom in unsettled and unpredictable times.  \nKeywords: academic freedom, university history, Canadian higher education  \nRésumé  \nLa liberté académique a une histoire longue et complexe au Canada et ailleurs. Pour des raisons parfois justifiables et parfois indéfendables, la liberté académique a été limitée de diverses manières, et pas seulement par les autorités institutionnelles ou politiques. À l’aide d’illustrations tirées du Canada et d’ailleurs, cet article retrace l’histoire et les progrès dela liberté académique et fait le point sur son statut dans la première partie du 21e siècle. Il explore les origines de la liberté académique, les manières changeantes dont elle a été qualifiée et même entravée, la particularité des approches canadiennes quant à ses valeurs et pratiques, et les défis auxquels les universités peuvent être confrontées pour maintenir la liberté académique en des temps instables.  \nMots-clés : liberté académique, histoire de l’université, enseignement supérieur canadien  \nIntroduction  \nAcademic freedom has a long, complex history in Canada and elsewhere. It has largely been experienced and studied as the struggle by professors to obtain and preserve intellectual autonomy in the face of coercion by administrative authorities within the university and by political authorities outside the university. While these dynamics are a huge part of the story of academic freedom, and of the history of the university itself, they are by no means the whole story. For reasons that are at times justifiable and at times indefensible, academic freedom has been constrained in a variety of ways, and not only by institutional or political authorities. Using illustrations  \ndrawn from Canada and beyond, this article tracks the history and progress of academic freedom and takes stock of its status in the first part of the 21st century.1 It explores the origins of academic freedom, the evolving ways in which it has been qualified and even impeded, the particularity of Canadian approaches to its values and practices, and the ongoing challenges universities may face sustaining academic freedom in unsettled and unpredictable times.  \nFoundations  \nThe contemporary western university has its origins in Europe in the Middle Ages, though higher learning itself  \nCanadian Journal of Higher Education | Revue canadienne d’enseignement supérieur 51:3 (2021)   \nhas much deeper roots that extend well beyond Europe. Chinese, Indian, and Egyptian scholars and scribes, not to mention those illustrious thinkers of ancient Greece and Rome, contributed to philosophical and scientific thought long before the founding of the Universities of Bologna, Oxford, and Paris (Domonkos, 1977; Kimball, 1995) .  \nBy the fifteenth century the universitas—a community of scholars—had been established throughout Europe and functioned under papal authority. A form of academic freedom existed in practice, if not in theory. There were deep debates over theology and philosophy that consumed the intellectual energies of medieval scholars. Faith in God was a given, and the learning of received religious texts was essential. Was there room for critical thinking and analysis within this Catholic intellectual universe?  \nP","cbCaipU6CV3nf1PQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipU6CV3nf1PQ","pdf",208844,16,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Foundations","[{\"question\":\"What does the article identify as the key drivers of constraints on academic freedom?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that academic freedom has been constrained in various ways, not only by institutional or political authorities within and outside universities.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article characterize the experience and study of academic freedom?\",\"answer\":\"It describes academic freedom as largely experienced and studied as professors’ struggle to obtain and preserve intellectual autonomy against coercion from administrative and political authorities.\"},{\"question\":\"What historical foundations does the article discuss for academic freedom?\",\"answer\":\"It outlines the origins of the contemporary western university in medieval Europe and notes deeper influences before universities such as Bologna, Oxford, and Paris, including debates shaped by theology and philosophy.\"}]","Academic Freedom and Its Constraints - A Complex History | PDF",1792084052]