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Date:         Thu, 16 Dec 93 17:49:43 EST
From: Dan <DANRYAN@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu>
Organization: Yale University
Subject:      "Academic Freedom"
To: socgrad@UCSD.EDU

Just before sundown, Pat wrote:

>know how much academic freedom teaching assistants at the Ph.d
>level have in what is being taught in the class/classes in which they
>teach?  i.e.....Do you get to choose your own text books?  Who decides
>what topics are to be covered during a semester?  Has anyone ever been
>told what subject matter they could or could not teach to a class?

At the risk of appearling picky, I'm not sure all the constraints mentioned
really merit the label "academic freedom."  I'm not ready to offer a
definitive definition, but perhaps a distinction between academic freedom and
curricular free-hand or some such might be useful?

                                                  Dan