No University Is an Island : : Saving Academic Freedom / / Cary Nelson.
The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education’s independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited wit...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Front ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What Is Academic Freedom?
- 1 The Three-Legged Stool: Academic Freedom, Shared Governance, and Tenure
- 2 How a Campus Loses Its Way: Sixteen Threats to Academic Freedom
- 3 Legacies of Misrule: Our Contingent Future
- 4 Barefoot in New Zealand: Political Correctness on Campus
- 5 The Future of Faculty Unionization
- 6 Graduate-Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor
- 7 On Weakened Ground: The AAUP, Pedagogy, and the Struggle over Academic Freedom
- 8 No Campus Is an Island: Reflections on the AAUP Presidency
- 9 Evolution or Devolution: The Future of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author