" Academic Freedom at Al-Al Bayt University and the Level of Practicing it by the Faculty Members from their Point of View in Light of Some Variables"

The purpose of this study is to identify the level of practicing academic freedom by the faculty members at Al-Al Bayt University from their point of view. The study population included all the faculty members of Al- Al Bayt University, namely ( 297) during the academic year 2010/2011. The study sample was randomly selected and included (250) faculty member. In order to achieve the aims of this study, the study tool was constructed in its final form of (43) paragraphs distributed on four areas: teaching, freedom of speech, decision making, and scientific research. In order to answer the questions of the study, standard deviation, arithmetic mean, t- test, Multiple Analysis of Variance and Schefe' s method were used to identify the statistical significance of the differences. The findings of the study indicated that the level of practicing academic freedom by the faculty members at Al-A- Bayt University from their point of view was about average; teaching came first followed by freedom of speech, scientific research, while decision making came last. The findings also indicated the existence of differences of statistical significance (??0.05) due to the gender; the differences came in favor of males, and there were differences of statistical significance (??0.05) due to the effect of academic rank; the differences came in favor of Assistant Professor and beneath. In addition, there were no differences of statistical significance (??0.05) due to the age effect.