No university is an island
Subtitle: saving academic freedom
By: Cary Nelson.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814758595
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The three-legged stool: academic freedom, shared govenance, and tenure; title: How a campus loses its way: sixteen threats to academic freedom; title: Legacies of misrule: our contingent future; title: Barefoot in new zealand: political correctness on campus; title: The future of faculty unionization; title: Graduate-employee unionization and the future of academic labor; title: On weakened ground: the aaup, pedagogy, and the struggle over academic; title: Freedom; title: No campus is an island: reflections on the aaup presidency; title: Evolution or devolution: the future of the aaup's committee a on academic.