There are many examples of professors being attacked and classes being disrupted by students trying to enforce Academic Freedom. One example in the article “Purging Petraeus: The Progressive Assault on Academic Freedom” is a protest movement organized by progressive students, resulting from The City University of New York’s (CUNY) appointment of former army general David Petraeus to teach in its honors college (Petraeus 1). The CUNY students pressure the university into rescinding Professor David’s appointment because they disagree with the policies he carried out in his professional roles as a general in the U.S. Army.“ (Petraeus 2). Academic freedom “allows scholars of diverse views to meet and exchange ideas within a setting that protects
