{"id":96855,"date":"2019-04-01T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T09:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=96855"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:16","slug":"executive-board-responds-to-baudet-academic-freedom-is-always-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/04\/01\/executive-board-responds-to-baudet-academic-freedom-is-always-paramount\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Board responds to Baudet: ‘Academic freedom always comes first’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Executive Board of Erasmus University Rotterdam speaks out against the challenging of academic freedom. In doing so, the university leadership is indirectly responding to Thierry Baudet’s victory speech in which he stated that universities are ‘undermining’ society and to the ‘indoctrination hotline’ that his party Forum voor Democratie (English: Forum for Democracy) called into effect.<\/p>\n

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Nederland, Rotterdam, 07-09-2016\nEM\nstock\ncampus Woudestein\npromenade, park, noordzijde, beeld erasmus, tinbergen building\nFoto: \u00a9Ronald van den Heerik<\/span><\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>

\u201cTo restrict the academic freedom is something which we do not believe fits in a open society and is therefore condemnable\u201d, the Executive Board writes in a statement<\/a> on the university\u2019s website. \u201cWe believe that our scientists and professors should be able to do\u00a0their work in all freedom. Both, in the field of education as well as research. Within this, there is room for all mindsets. Of scientists,\u00a0teachers and of students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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