The management perspective of having sound academia, including improving the status of academic freedom: The Global South as a study

Abstract

From a management perspective, furthering a 1Western style academic freedom has been challenging as universities in the Global South have been struggling to ensure academic freedom and ways to guarantee it on the upper management level. The problem addressed in this study is the impact of political change on the upper to mid-level management of academia but more specifically academic freedom. Many academics have faced systemic harassments as a direct result of religious and political radicals taking over most of the integral governmental posts in the country. The research questions reflect ways in which the management policies of universities can impact academic freedom and implement policies to ensure it.