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

... and reinforces it. The renewed emphasis on quantifiable metrics—in the absence of any collective effort to increase the actual quantity of tenure-track jobs—only inflates the influence of the cult of genius. Both sides of this dynamic were on display in the Reitman-Ronell case. In Ronell's increasing demands...

... as a primary profession are impoverished. Such a paradox is the logical extension and 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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 in the ordinary...

.... 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...

... 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...

... their 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...

... at a meeting, or turn in grade lists on time, or to remember appointments or the names of students, or to write memoranda not tainted by irrelevance.”5 It is a cult whose devotions still flourish today, but it is increasingly attended only by the securely tenured or tenurable...

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

... 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, but on this score...

... and 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...

... two months another body of trustees, the board at the University of South Florida, voted twelve to one to fire the tenured professor for disrupting the busi- ness of the university. Al-Arian, it seemed, would not survive public...

... 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 requirements. Nor are these matters mandatory subjects of bargaining under...

... 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 Monetary Fund since the debt crisis of the early 1980s, have turned the state into a mechanism to expand this dynamic...

..., but we find ourselves together exposed to a colonial ecology that under- or malnourishes some of us while others thrive, 49 that works to direct our energies, attentions, and affects toward Man's dominion. The contributors to this issue occupy a range of distinct positions in universities—tenured...

... the backlash or lack of support for my activist-scholarship work from academic colleagues and institutions, as a North American scholar with tenure, I rarely have had to worry about risks to my physical safety in response to my writings and activism. That is a luxury that many of my colleagues in the Global...

...- motions and training programs, Mexican women continue to represent the ranks of the unskilled, untrained, poorly educated, and lowest paid in an industry where, as a group, they constitute the majority with the longest tenure. When...