The Academic Freedom of Extra Mural Speech

Academic freedom is, in a very important way, a collect associational freedom of units of universities. I am free to conduct my research however i like, in whatever direction it leads me - within the argumentative fand evidenty standard that applied to me as a political tist. The student is free to reach whatever conclusions their arguments lead them to, within the standards of argument and inquiry and so on. That's an academic freedom that students have, as well as being an academicfreedom that professors havea now.