Globalization and Academic Freedom

As it is said on the abstract page of the paper the goal of the paper is to analyze the impact of globalization on higher education in general and academic freedom in particular. "Globalization and Academic Freedom" defined academic freedom as the freedom of members of the academic community, individually or collectively, in the pursuit, development and transmission of knowledge, through research, study, discussion, documentation, production, creation, teaching, lecturing and writing. In fact they gave two definitions but this one from the Lima and Dar Es Salam Declaration is the one I prefer because I think it give a whole view of the concept. Then they try to analyze the relation between globalization and freedom saying that it was an obvious two-way link, one aspect of which being the ICT revolution, itself an engine and an expression of globalization. And they therefore divided the discussion into three submissions. The first was that academic freedom was a global problem. The second was swaying that globalization has changed both the ways and the conditions in which teaching, research; publishing and dissemination of scholarly publishing are carried out. And finally that the neo-liberal globalization has in some ways increased possibilities for academic freedom, but it also actually poses many formidable challenges to academic freedom and the autonomy of higher education institutions. Submissions that they then explained showed.