When college administrators decide that a professor has given a student too low a grade (it never works the other way, of course) and change it, has the professor’s right to academic freedom been violated? Or has the school just done something it probably shouldn’t, but without violating any right belonging to the professor?

That issue has come up a number of times, most recently at Virginia State. In this week’s Clarion Call, I comment on this point of contention.