...Joel Westheimer Duke University Press 2002 Tenure Denied ANTI-UNIONISM AND ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN THE ACADEMY It was supposed to be a dull day downtown. On 28 September 1999, I...

..., 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-thinking students, dominated the media and came to define the terms of...

... 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...

... 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 abolished by Thatcher, the indirect result...

... 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 in the ordinary sense because “in the essentials of...

... 2002 Contents McJihad: Islam in the U.S. Global Order Timothy Mitchell 1 Anthrax “R ” Us Susan Willis 19 Visual and Performance Studies: A New History of Interdisciplinarity Catherine Soussloff and Mark Franko 29 Tenure Denied: Anti-unionism and Anti-intellectualism in the...

... 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 to do with his observations on 9/11. Ashley Dawson is...

... 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 to the future of academic labor. In what follows, I...

.... 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...

... 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,” leaving faculty as the “delivery people.”10 through The profit...

... 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...

... 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 concerning departmental or...

... 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...

.... 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, but on this score, he was upright. The braying of the multitude, even if...

.... 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 the International...

... 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...

... 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 waitresses. The risks and benefi ts of coming out are...

... 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 national conference on queer studies include...

... meeting in New York and visited Aronowitz at his apartment in the city. Then, through Jameson’s initiative, in 1976 Aronowitz spent the winter quarter teaching as a visitor in the literature department at UCSD. (He subsequently accepted a tenured position...