...Joel Westheimer Duke University Press 2002 Tenure Denied ANTI-UNIONISM AND ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN THE ACADEMY It...

... University. Although they followed hard on one another’s heels, commentators seldom linked these disruptions to one another and never addressed their common cause. Instead, sensational talk of a leftist putsch, of tenured radicals commandeering the ivory tower and purging right...

... amplification of the tradi- tions of the research university, where full-time faculty who place too great an emphasis on teaching or community service may find themselves coming up short in tenure reviews, where publication records are of para- mount importance. Such “up or out” promotion strategies for...

.... How useful is academic free- dom as an organizing tool given the downsizing of academia? Andrew Ross: Academic freedom has to be a bedrock principle, and the institution of tenure, which is its guarantor, remains a key battleground. In the United Kingdom, for example, where tenure was...

... (AAUP) to ensure academic freedom for faculty and to author the “1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure.” Key to the document was the distinction of the university from a business venture and of teaching from private employment. Faculty members were not employees...

... Mark Franko 29 Tenure Denied: Anti-unionism and Anti-intellectualism in the Academy Joel Westheimer 47 Homo on the Range: Mobile and Global Sexualities Jigna Desai 65 Extracting Men from Semen: Masculinity in Scientific Representations of Sperm Lisa Jean Moore 91...

... Sciences (1992), Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Teaching (1994), and the Herd Award for Best Undergraduate Teacher (2005). The university administration is currently (as of fall 2006) attempting to revoke his tenure, although we are assured that this has nothing...

... concentrated in a few schools and, for obvious reasons, almost entirely limited to tenured professors. Still, it was the first time in the ten years I’d been at NYU that a significant number of my colleagues was moved to public passion by a campus issue; and the questions we are struggling with are important...

.... www.workplace-gsc.com/issue4/harneymoten.html . National Center for Education Statistics. 1993. National study of postsecondary faculty. nces.ed.gov/surveys/nsopf . Nelson, Cary. 1997a . Manifesto of a tenured radical . New York: New York University Press. ____, ed. 1997b . Will teach for...

... and keep the faculty from imminent unionizing.”8 But at root, these educational “companies are managed con- servatively according to tried-and-true methods of supervision.”9 Tenure departure is out, and the “curriculum is managed centrally by professional curricu- lum specialists...

... increasingly attended only by the securely tenured or tenurable, who are, even as we speak, about to become a minority in their workplaces. In its heyday, this cult was most assiduously observed in colleges patterned after the model of elite East Coast institutions living...

... responsibilities only when they have confidence that their work will be judged on its merits alone. For this reason the appointment, reappointment, promotion, and tenure of faculty members . . . should not be influenced by such extrinsic considerations as political, social, or religious views, or views...

... professor wherever he went.6 The next day, Dr. al-Arian began receiving death threats at work, and within two months another body of trustees, the board at the University of South Florida, voted twelve to one to fire the tenured professor for...

... filled with poor English grammar, misspellings, and outrageous accusations. They could not be taken seriously in themselves, particularly when they were being hurled at a tenured professor at a private college. Of course, the same dean, before 9/11, challenged my right to teach a course on Marx...

... inequality on the planet. On a global scale, neoliberal doctrines have entailed a new round of “enclosure of the commons” through the conversion of collective land tenure into private property.20 Structural adjustment programs, widely deployed throughout the developing world by the World Bank and...

... paid in an industry where, as a group, they constitute the majority with the longest tenure. When the managers I interviewed sought evidence for their views regarding the untrainable and high-turnover women, they sim...

... the require- ments of the graduate degree will be.”2 In response to claims of this sort, GSOC has repeatedly made a blunt statement of intention: We are inter- ested in conditions of work; we do not claim authority over such issues as curriculum, pedagogy, grades, faculty tenure, or admissions...

... income, of personal assault, of social stigma. These risks vary according to the circumstances of the actor. Popular chanteuses face a very different cost-benefi t analysis in coming out than do tenured professors or truck-stop...

... central to the queer project in academia, and queer studies has moved far beyond readings of canonical shame . . . white gay male authors and artists by tenured white gay male professors. shame can be So why, again, would a major...