Nelson, Cary,

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.

0814758592 9780814758595

2009030682


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

LB2322.2 / .N45 2010

378.1213