CHEd chairman Prospero de Vera III said the decision to remove the “subversive” materials from libraries was “an exercise of academic freedom.' Merriam-Webster defines academic freedom as the freedom to teach or learn without interference. | zacariansINQ
De Vera then went on to say that HEIs should respect each other’s decisions “in the spirit of mutual respect and proper governance of their institutions.”
He also pointed out that a lot of other institutions were critical of the policies adopted by UP Diliman officials, including the way they run their campus. But he sai these institutions were not issuing statements against UP Diliman “out of mutual respect for the governance of individual public universities.
On Saturday, UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo vowed to protect the university’s collection and defend the campus as a sanctuary of free ideas and activism. UP Visayas Chancellor Clement Camposano also promised that the campus would not remove from its libraries the threatened reading materials and books.With the efforts to purge the said “subversive” books, an alliance of teachers, researchers, and other professionals consequently opened a collection of the same books online which will serve as a “free and easily accessible resource of endangered books and materials.
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