THE 1987 Constitution guarantees the enjoyment of academic freedom of all institutions of higher learning. The framers of our Constitution purposely did not define the extent of academic freedom of institutions recognizing that this term is dynamic and therefore should be left for the judiciary to provide and interpret the scope of such freedom.

Our Supreme Court subscribes to American jurisprudence, specifically to the landmark case of Sweezy v Hampshire in defining academic freedom. Sweezy provides the four freedoms subsumed in the term academic freedom as the freedom to determine on academic grounds who shall teach, what shall be taught, how it shall be taught and who shall be admitted to study.