The American Association of University Professors announced on Monday the reversal of its 24-year-old stance opposing academic boycotts with a statement saying faculty members and students should be free to assess the specific circumstances of systematic academic boycotts and make their own choices regarding their participation in them.
According to its new policy, AAUP said academic boycotts are not inherently violations of academic freedom and can instead be “legitimate tactical responses” to conditions that are “fundamentally incompatible with the mission of higher education.”
“The freedom to produce and exchange knowledge depends upon the guarantee of other basic freedoms and human rights, among them the rights to life, liberty, security of person, freedom from arbitrary arrest or detention, and the rights to liberty of movement and freedom to choose one’s residence,” AAUP said in a statement written by it’s Committee A on Academic Freedom.
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