A CONVERSATION ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM: IS THE MAGNA CHARTA UNIVERSITATUM STILL RELEVANT TO TODAY’S UNIVERSITIES?
September 1st, 2012
BY LEE ADENDORFF, IN BOLOGNA
MORE than 110 academics and university administrators met in Bologna, Italy on September 21 for the twenty-fourth anniversary conference of the Magna Charta Universitatum - a declaration on fundamental university principles that has now been signed by over 750 universities worldwide. According to Anna Glass, secretary general of think tank, monitoring body and signatories association Magna Charta Universitatum Observatory, the aim of this year's conference was to "open up a conversation" - "a kind of old-fashioned ...
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