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As the previous chapter has shown, there has never been a golden age of academic freedom within universities. In different historical periods, attacks upon academic freedom have come from the church, state, university managers and benefactors, or students and colleagues — or a combination of these forces. Confronting each new threat has posed its own particular set of challenges.
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Williams, J. (2016). Conformity in the Academy. In: Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137514790_3
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