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1	in no way ever talk against autonomy or any segment of
2	education because I believe when it is properly used, it
5	can be a real force towards efficiency in any segment.
4	Now, the historic development, it seems to me, as I have
5	watched here in Maryland for a brief year, it would
6	appear, but I've watched it a long time, or across the
7	nation, has been one in which academic freedom per se is
8	very rarely attacked any more, not by direct route.
9	I think that the fine development across the
10	nation as a whole is that in almost every state the
11	selection in almost every segment of higher education,
12	the investigation of the faculty members is now left to
13	the board and the institution involved. 1 think this is
14	so much a part of our existence today that no one would
15	really ever take it away. 1 think we have the other
16	tremendous safeguard and that is if in any governmental
17	unit or any individual attempted to take away in your
18	institution, in any junior college, in any four-year
19	college, in any university, real academic freedom, that
20	institution would cease to be accredited within a period
21	of twelve to fifteen months and, when it ceased to be