The shadow university
Subtitle: the betrayal of liberty on America's campuses
By: Alan Charles Kors, Harvey A. Silverglate.
Contributors: Silverglate, Harvey A., 1942-
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Academic freedom -- United States; Freedom of speech -- United States; Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States; Political correctness -- United States; Due process of law -- United States
Description: Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct world-view through censorship, double standards, and a judicial system without due process.

The Shadow University is a stinging indictment of the covert system of justice on college campuses, exposing the widespread reliance on kangaroo courts and arbitrary punishment to coerce students and faculty into conformity. Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A.

Silverglate, staunch civil libertarians and active defenders of free inquiry on campus, lay bare the totalitarian mindset that undergirds speech codes, conduct codes, and "campus life" bureaucracies, through which a cadre of deans and counselors indoctrinate students and faculty in an ideology that favors group rights over individual rights, sacrificing free speech and academic freedom to spare the sensitivities of currently favored groups.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-399) and index.