ABSTRACT
Developed professional academic freedom grants to professors the right to be free from lay interference by employers in research, teaching, and intramural and extramural utterance. The faculty as a collegial body has correlative duties to defend academic freedom and enforce the individual duties. Constitutional academic freedom developed in protect content-based academic decisions of the university and individual professors from coercion by the government. An explanation why the theory of academic freedom fails is applicable only to the student activism of the 1960s and the current fundamentalism of the radical academic left. These are the first waves involving a broad populist intimidation initiated and carried out by zealots either from the student body or from the faculty itself. An explanation why the theory of academic freedom falls short in practice focuses on the correlative duty of the faculty as individuals and as a collegial body to defend the freedom of academic inquiry and discourse.
