Campus politics
Subtitle: what everyone needs to know
By: Jonathan Zimmerman
Series: What everyone needs to know; What everyone needs to know
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780190627393; 9780190627409
Subjects: Higher Education; College teachers; Academic freedom; College students; Political activity; Political correctness
Description: In Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jonathan Zimmerman breaks down the dynamics of what is actually driving this recent wave of discontent. After setting recent events in the context of the last half-century of free speech campus movements, Zimmerman looks at the political beliefs of the US professorate and students. He follows this with chapters on political correctness; debates over the contested curriculum; admissions, faculty hires, and affirmative action; policing students; academic freedom and censorship; in loco parentis administration; and the psychology behind demands for "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces." He concludes with the question of how to best balance the goals of social and racial justice with the commitment to free speech.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.