No university is an island : saving academic freedom /
Cary Nelson.
- ix, 289 pages ; 24 cm.
- Cultural front .
- Cultural front (Series). .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index.
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.
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American Association of University Professors. Committee on Academic Freedom
Education, Higher--Philosophy Education, Higher--Political aspects Universities and colleges--Political aspects Academic freedom. Teaching, Freedom of Intellectual freedom Political correctness