1.

Using your own words, not the authors’, not the Internet’s, not your classmate’s,
explain the meaning of academic freedom and how long has it been around in the
US? 2pts
Academic freedom is to be:
To professors, students, and the academic family have the freedom and the right to do the
research and publish its results to the public and people on any topic related to their
specialization.
Professors are free to teach the subject or the model they wish to teach and how to teach it
without any limits of course in their specialization.
Freedom to express their opinion and speak on any topic or issue, as they have the right to
stand against it
As experts and elites, academics should be free of control from university leaders.
It first appeared (THE ACADEMIC FREEDOM ), with the academics who talked about it a
100 year ago

2. What is the purpose and mission of the Academic Freedom Alliance (AFA)? 2pts

its goal and mission for which it was established is to Help college at first then is to protect
professors, students and academics, and to protect their ideas, research, “speak, instruct, and
publish without fear of sanction or punishment.”

Preserving the concept and Clarify the principles of academic freedom

It also aims to protect their positions if they receive abuse on an issue.

Its goal is to expand , with the join of new academics even if they are not exposed to
situations

3. List and explain the three forms of academic freedoms mentioned by the authors.
3pts

It has three points.

The first is the freedom to teach without outside interference.

The second is the ability to do research and write on academic issues without university
leaders preventing the public from seeing the work.
The third is the ability to speak in public about ideas of the day without interference from
university leaders.

4. Explain the three instances listed by the authors to illustrate some violation of
academic freedoms – 5pts

First

professor Greg Patton ; University of Southern California. Last summer,

He was teaching in his specialty and he had to say some Chinese words that resembled to a
not good English words in order to make it easier for students to understand, but he was
stopped

Second

Also last summer, Auburn University professor Jesse Goldberg

He criticized the police in a message on Twitter and that's why his academic rank was
demoted

Third

Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis & Harvard professor and language
researcher Steven Pinker

They were only punished because they criticized or were criticized

5. Do you think academic freedom and freedom of speech are respected in the post-
Bouteflika era in Algeria? Can you give examples? 4pts

After more than 18 months

I believe that the margin of freedom in Algeria has shrunk despite the popular movement in
the country

Many media workers are optimistic that this blessed movement, according to President
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, will be the beginning of a new era of free journalistic work.
 The reality of freedoms in Algeria remains not good, as the country is witnessing a
continuous campaign of arrests of activists and journalists

6. What does this photo tell you? 4pts

It is a picture that shows a little of the suffering and fatigue of the nurses and medical staff
They are taking a break after a lot of working hours in the hospital due to the Corona virus
I think they are from the Asian countries, Thailand and the Philippines, due to their skin color
and thiers eyes
They are a sample of something bigger and we will find a picture like this in all hospitals in
the world
Not only are the size of the shoes big, but their efforts and work are great