Why Academic Freedom Matters
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Why Academic Freedom Matters
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Author : Cheryl Hudson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-06
Why Academic Freedom Matters written by Cheryl Hudson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-06 with categories.
The Concept Of Academic Freedom
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Author : Kevin McGuinness
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2002
The Concept Of Academic Freedom written by Kevin McGuinness and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
Academic freedom comprises two inter-related rights, one belonging to educational institutions, particularly universities, and the other to the scholars whom they employ. This work surveys a variety of approaches taken toward academic freedom-related issues around the world (though concentrating mainly on the UK), including control over hiring, promotion, tenure, course content, assessment, student evaluation of the faculty, deviation from orthodox methodology, and revisionism.
Versions Of Academic Freedom
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Author : Stanley Fish
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-10-23
Versions Of Academic Freedom written by Stanley Fish and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with Education categories.
Advocates of academic freedom often view it as a variation of the right to free speech and an essential feature of democracy. Stanley Fish argues here for a narrower conception of academic freedom, one that does not grant academics a legal status different from other professionals. Providing a blueprint for the study of academic freedom, Fish breaks down the schools of thought on the subject, which range from the idea that academic freedom is justified by the common good or by academic exceptionalism, to its potential for critique or indeed revolution. Fish himself belongs to what he calls the It s Just a Job school: while academics need the latitude call it freedom if you like necessary to perform their professional activities, they are not free in any special sense to do anything but their jobs. Academic freedom, Fish argues, should be justified only by the specific educational good that academics offer. Defending the university in all its glorious narrowness as a place of disinterested inquiry, Fish offers a bracing corrective to academic orthodoxy."
Academic Freedom
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Author : Stephen H. Aby
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-02-28
Academic Freedom written by Stephen H. Aby and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-28 with Education categories.
The freedom of academics to pursue knowledge and truth in their research, writing, and teaching is a fundamental principle of contemporary higher education in the United States. But this freedom has been hard won and regularly abridged, reinterpreted, and violated. Academic freedom has been central to many issues and controversies in higher education and has thus generated literature in a variety of disciplines. This book provides access to that literature. Included are entries for nearly 500 books, chapters, articles, reports, web sites, and other sources of information about academic freedom. Each entry includes a descriptive annotation, and the entries are grouped in topical chapters. While most of the works cited were published since the 1940 American Association of University Professors Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, some older studies have also been included. Though the volume focuses primarily on higher education in the U.S., it also includes a chapter on academic freedom in other countries.
Academic Freedom Under Siege
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Author : Zhidong Hao
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-02
Academic Freedom Under Siege written by Zhidong Hao and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-02 with Education categories.
This book argues that academic freedom in higher education in East Asia, the U.S. and Australia is under stress. Academic freedom means freedom to teach, research, and serve in multiple political and social roles based on professional principles. It is closely linked to shared governance, in which academics participate in and influence decision making in core academic concerns such as choosing new faculty, faculty promotion, tenure decisions and the approval of new academic programs. In different countries and regions, the duress confronting academic freedom may come from different directions, and the ability of faculty to share power can vary greatly. In authoritarian mainland China, it is mostly political and ideological controls that greatly affect academic freedom, and shared governance is very much limited. In semi-democracies like Hong Kong and Macau and democracies like Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the U.S. and Australia, corporatization and commercialization have had great impact on both academic freedom and shared governance. The result is that the roles professors play within academia are continually being diminished and the academic profession is struggling to maintain its ground. Similar developments are also occurring in Europe. These developments should cause great concern to educators, researchers and policymakers everywhere. The authors collected here present attempts to learn from current practice in order to move policy into directions that will help protect higher education as a common good. This book highlights the importance of academic freedom and provides insights into the ways it is being infringed both by commercialization and corporatization on the one hand and political repression on the other. It vividly illustrates detailed case studies and empirical data that make it a compelling read.- Professor Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto, Canada Academic freedom is as important today as at any time in the last century. The authors point out the challenges that academic freedom faces on a global scale. The import of the book is in its comparative perspective steeped in data and analysis. Thoughtful. Cogent. Compelling. - Professor William G. Tierney and Professor Wilbur-Kieffer, University of Southern California, United States
Understanding Academic Freedom
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Author : Henry Reichman
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Understanding Academic Freedom written by Henry Reichman and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Education categories.
Part of the acclaimed Higher Ed Leadership Essentials series, this book surveys academic freedom's history and its application in today's universities. Academic freedom is once again at the epicenter of the crisis in higher education. A community college instructor in Iowa is pressured to resign after his pro-antifa social media comments garner vicious harassment that administrators find threatening to campus safety. A tenured biology professor at a college on Long Island is threatened with dismissal because she allegedly grades students too strictly. And in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a conservative activist calls on his followers to take advantage of online classes to send "any and all videos of blatant indoctrination" to his organization so that it might expose and blacklist "leftist professors." These incidents from the 2019–20 academic year represent only the tip of the iceberg. Academic freedom, long heralded as a core value of American higher education, may now be in as much danger as at any time the 1950s. But what is "academic freedom"? A value upheld for one's supporters (but not one's opponents) when discussing a polarizing controversy? Or a narrow claim of privilege by a professorial elite, immune from public accountability? In this concise and compelling book, Henry Reichman, who chaired the American Association of University Professors' Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure for nearly a decade, mounts a rigorous defense of academic freedom and its principal means of protection: the system of academic tenure. Probing academic freedom's role in multiple contexts, Reichman draws on a wealth of historical and contemporary examples to offer the first comprehensive introduction to the concept in all its manifestations. Elucidating its sometimes complicated meanings, Reichman argues that academic freedom—like its cousin, freedom of speech—cannot easily be defined but, instead, emerges from the contextual application of guiding principles developed and modified over time. He also explores why the rise of contingent faculty employment represents the gravest current threat to academic freedom; reveals how academic freedom is complicated by both fiercely polarized campus environments and the emergence of social media that extend speech beyond the lecture halls of the academy; and touches on the rights of students in and out of class, including treatment of student protest movements.
Academic Freedom In Our Time
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Author : Robert Morrison MacIver
language : en
Publisher: New York : Gordian Press, 1967 [c1955]
Release Date : 1967
Academic Freedom In Our Time written by Robert Morrison MacIver and has been published by New York : Gordian Press, 1967 [c1955] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Education categories.
The Future Of Academic Freedom
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Author : Henry Reichman
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-02
The Future Of Academic Freedom written by Henry Reichman and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Education categories.
The issues Reichman considers—which are the subjects of daily conversation on college and university campuses nationwide as well as in the media—will fascinate general readers, students, and scholars alike.
Academic Freedom In An Age Of Conformity
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Author : Joanna Williams
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-05
Academic Freedom In An Age Of Conformity written by Joanna Williams and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with Education categories.
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while fondness for the rhetoric of academic freedom remains, it is increasingly criticised as an outdated and elitist concept by students and lecturers alike and called into question by a number of political and intellectual trends such as feminism, critical theory and identity politics. This provocative and compelling book traces the demise of academic freedom within the context of changing ideas about the purpose of the university and the nature of knowledge. The book argues that a challenge to this culture of conformity and censorship and a defence of academic free speech are needed for critique to be possible and for the intellectual project of evaluating existing knowledge and proposing new knowledge to be meaningful. This book is that challenge and a passionate call to arms for the power of academic thought today.
For The Common Good
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Author : Matthew W. Finkin
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-21
For The Common Good written by Matthew W. Finkin and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-21 with Law categories.
This book offers a concise explanation of the history and meaning of American academic freedom, and it attempts to intervene in contemporary debates by clarifying the fundamental functions and purposes of academic freedom in America.--From publisher description.