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...Evan Watkins The principles of academic freedom as articulated in centrally influential documents such as the 1940 AAUP “Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure” assume the concept of merit as basic. The protections and the responsibilities of academic freedom and tenure are granted...

...Gerald Graff Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Gerald Graff Academic Writing and the Uses of Bad Publicity Everyone knows the rap against academic writing: it is overrun with indecipherable jar­ gon; it deals with rarefied subjects that only a specialist could love; it is ingrown...

...Eugene D. Genovese Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Academic Freedom Today Eugene D. Genovese For those who believe that the First Amendment guarantees absolute freedom of speech, no general problem of academic freedom exists, al­ though some important problems of application...

...W. T. Laprade The Year of the Oath: The Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of California . By Stewart George R. in collaboration with other Professors of the University of California. Garden City : Doubleday and Co. , 1950 . Pp. 156 . $2.00 . This Happened in Pasadena...

... Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 Trinity College and Academic Liberty The editor has been requested to publish the subjoined state­ ment, memorial, and editorial. He is glad to comply with the request, both because of its respectable source and because he desires to make...

...Victor S. Bryant Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 SOUTH ATLANTIC ACADEMIC FREEDOM* Victor S. Bryant NY BASIC consideration of the meaning, purpose, and necesXjLsity of academic freedom requires a clear concept of what a university should be. On this point I am willing to accept...

...S. H. Nulle Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 The Academic Liberal S. H. Nulle I The presidential campaign of 1968, with law and order as its major domestic issue, revealed that, faced with growing insecurity mounting crises in the conflict of individual liberty and social order...

...Linda Brodkey; Holly Bauer Composition programs in American colleges and universities do not enjoy the rights and privileges of other fields and disciplines. The problems have to do with the status of an academic field beset by commonsense criticism of both its curriculum and pedagogy. Subject...

...Samuel P. Nelson; Catherine Prendergast The commonplace justification of academic freedom, described in terms of professional norms and practices of the professoriate, often cites advancing the public interest in knowledge creation as a key basis for academic freedom. Yet the public's role remains...

...Cary Nelson Following a concise definition of academic freedom and a rejoinder to current conservative efforts to limit it by David Horowitz, the National Association of Scholars, and Stanley Fish, “The Fate of Academic Freedom” describes sixteen specific conditions emerging as major threats...

... . In particular, the exceptionalist mode functions to deny the violent displacement of indigenous peoples by settler colonialism. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Eric Cheyfitz The Corporate University, Academic Freedom, and American Exceptionalism ​In 1997, I gave an address...

...Norman G. Finkelstein The essay focuses on whether academic freedom is compatible with prescribing a code of conduct outside the classroom. I first look at the Bertrand Russell case. Russell was denied a teaching post at City College of New York because of his expressed opinions on morality...

...Bruce Robbins “Deadwood: Academic Freedom and Smart People ” offers a reading of the 2008 film Smart People as an allegory of what the humanities “do” as understood by the general public: the remembering of beloved but now distant or inaccessible things, such as the dead wife for whom...

...Jeffrey T. Nealon Within contemporary debates about the present and future of the university, academic freedom often functions in a Neoplatonic manner—which is to say, it functions as that eternal and unfettered form that guides the mundane material practices of academic life (most obviously...

...Frank Donoghue This essay questions the historical yoking together of the concepts of academic freedom and tenure, arguing that both concepts have been poorly and inconsistently defined since the AAUP's inaugural document, the “Declaration of Principles on Academic Tenure,” was published in 1915...

...Zeynep Gambetti This essay situates the struggle for academic freedom and university autonomy at Boğaziçi University within the broader framework of post-truth. Post-truth is defined as a disinvestment from long-established norms regulating what counts as true, without introducing new criteria...

...Matthew Abraham This essay argues that the reception of Noam Chomsky's political scholarship by progressive academics demonstrates that the state of theory in the humanities has reached a point of crisis; that is, Chomsky's unpopularity in certain academic circles indicates that conceptions...

..., and the United States to speculate on the sociological background of these actions. It argues that the breadth of protests in solidarity with the resisting students and faculty at Boğaziçi is in part due to the de facto exile of young university graduates and academics from Turkey across Europe and North America...

...Mashuq Kurt; Nilay Özok-Gündoğan This special‐issue introduction highlights the burgeoning movement toward decolonizing Kurdish studies, outlining its challenges and opportunities within the academic landscape. Central to the authors’ discussion is the concept of the coloniality of power, which...

...Andrew Ross As Anglophone universities expand overseas, what are some of the problems facing the protection of faculty rights? The essay describes the spectrum of potential threats to academic freedom at overseas sites and describes various measures undertaken by the AAUP and others to combat them...