Purging of books is not exercising academic freedom

By Antonio Contreras

Nov 16, 2021 12:05 am

I HAVE a friendly relationship with Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chairman J. Prospero E. de Vera 3rd. But friendship aside, however, I would like to respectfully disagree with his assertion that 'the decision to remove books and other reading materials in a university library is done by individual higher education institutions in the exercise of academic freedom.'

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