No university is an island : saving academic freedom
by
 
Nelson, Cary.

Title
No university is an island : saving academic freedom

Author
Nelson, Cary.

ISBN
9780814758595

Personal Author
Nelson, Cary.

Publication Information
New York : New York University Press, c2010.

Physical Description
ix, 289 p. ; 24 cm.

Series
Cultural front
 
Cultural front (Series)

Contents
The three-legged stool: academic freedom, shared govenance, and tenure -- How a campus loses its way: sixteen threats to academic freedom -- Legacies of misrule: our contingent future -- Barefoot in New Zealand: political correctness on campus -- The future of faculty unionization -- Graduate-employee unionization and the future of academic labor -- On weakened ground: the AAUP, pedagogy, and the struggle over academic freedom -- No campus is an island: reflections on the AAUP presidency -- Evolution or devolution: the future of the AAUP's committee A on academic freedom and tenure.

Corporate Subject
American Association of University Professors. Committee on Academic Freedom.

Subject Term
Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
 
Education, Higher -- Political aspects.
 
Universities and colleges -- Political aspects.
 
Academic freedom.
 
Teaching, Freedom of.
 
Intellectual freedom.
 
Political correctness.


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