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Special Committee to Release Report
The Association's Special Committee on Academic Freedom and National Security in a Time of Crisis will publish a report in the November-December issue of Academe. The report reviews and analyzes developments since September 11, 2001, that impinge on academic freedom.
Topics covered in the report include the USA Patriot Act, restrictions on research, export controls inhibiting the free flow of international information, and government policies affecting the movement of foreign students and scholars in and out of the country. The report includes a section summarizing cases on individual campuses and a series of recommendations at the national and institutional levels.
The report notes that freedom of inquiry and the open exchange of ideas are crucial to the nation's security, and that practices that discourage or impair freedom damage the nation's security and well-being. It concludes that measures to ensure the nation's safety against terrorism should therefore constrain our liberties only so far as is demonstrably necessary.
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