Title
No University Is an Island : Saving Academic Freedom / Cary Nelson.
ISBN
9780814759059
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814758595.001.0001 doi
Call Number
LB2322.2 .N45 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1213
Summary
The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education's independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited with paltry salaries for full-time work, politics and profit rather than intellectual freedom govern decision-making, and professors are being monitored for the topics they teach.No University Is an Island offers a comprehensive account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom. At once witty and devastating, it confronts these threats with exceptional frankness, then offers a prescription for higher education's renewal. In an insider's account of how the primary organization for faculty members nationwide has fought the culture wars, Cary Nelson, the current President of the American Association of University Professors, unveils struggles over governance and unionization and the increasing corporatization of higher education. Peppered throughout with previously unreported, and sometimes incendiary, higher education anecdotes, Nelson is at his flame-throwing best.The book calls on higher education's advocates of both the Left and the Right to temper conviction with tolerance and focus on higher education's real injustices. Nelson demands we stop denying teachers, student workers, and other employees a living wage and basic rights. He urges unions to take up the larger cause of justice. And he challenges his own and other academic organizations to embrace greater democracy.With broad and crucial implications for the future, No University Is an Island will be the benchmark against which we measure the current definitive struggle for academic freedom.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Series
Cultural Front ; ; 4
Available in Other Form
print 9780814758595
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Academic Freedom?
1 The Three-Legged Stool: Academic Freedom, Shared Governance, and Tenure
2 How a Campus Loses Its Way: Sixteen Threats to Academic Freedom
3 Legacies of Misrule: Our Contingent Future
4 Barefoot in New Zealand: Political Correctness on Campus
5 The Future of Faculty Unionization
6 Graduate-Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor
7 On Weakened Ground: The AAUP, Pedagogy, and the Struggle over Academic Freedom
8 No Campus Is an Island: Reflections on the AAUP Presidency
9 Evolution or Devolution: The Future of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
