ucation preclude teachers from asserting a stand-alone freedom to speak that trumps the interests of students, parents, administrators, and the elected school board, the concern remains that placating too much non-teachers and non-students results in educational institutions abdicating their role as, first and foremost, educators (Daly, 2001, p. 1).
The founders of the AAUP considered conservative university trustees and presidents as the greatest threat to academic freedom (Weidner, 2003, p. 445). They therefore advocated for institutional neutrality as a way of preventing administrators from establishing "official orthodoxies" that would inhibit professors or penalize them for expressing unpopular opinions. Professors also were to be protected with peer review and tenure and were not to be considered employees of the university (Weidner, 2003, p. 445). Rather, the AAUP likened professors to federal judges, who were appointed to university positions but who were expected (ideally)
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