scholarly journals In Defense of Academic Freedom and Faculty Governance: John Dewey, the 100th Anniversary of the AAUP, and the Threat of Corporatization

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Eastman ◽  
Deron Boyles
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Faculty Governance

The Elusive Ideal of Academic Freedom

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-240
Author(s):  
George M. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
American Association ◽  
World War ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Lafayette College ◽  
American Schools ◽  
The Ideal

Academic freedom arose as a prominent ideal at major American schools in the early twentieth century and with the founding of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 1915. The concern was to exclude outside interests of business or religion from limiting academic freedom, as had sometimes happened. As John Dewey advocated, scientifically trained experts should be free to rule. Schools with religious heritage often had both proclaimed the freedom of professors and expected some religiously defined limits on their teaching. That was well illustrated in the controversy at Lafayette College when a conservative Presbyterian president fired a controversial professor. The ideal of academic freedom was elusive, however, because freedom always had limits as was illustrated by the controversies over national loyalty of professors during World War I. The AAUP eventually allowed religious limits on freedom if they were clearly stated in advance.

Why American Indian Studies Should Be Important to Palestine Solidarity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Salaita
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Faculty Governance ◽  
American Indian Studies ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Donor Influence

The fifth chapter argues that American Indian and Indigenous Studies should be more central to Palestine solidarity based on the presence of Palestine as an issue of global concern. In particular, the author examines recent debates about academic freedom, faculty governance, donor influence, and the suppression of radical points of view in the context of the colonial logic by which universities are animated.

Disenchanted Professionals: The Politics of Faculty Governance in the Neoliberal Academy

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Faculty Governance ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Academic Workforce

The “corporatization” of the academy is often cited as a cause of the “de-professionalization” of the professoriate, and that in turn is cited as a cause of the faculty’s current disempowerment. The specifically modern conception of professionalism presupposed by these arguments occludes the deep implication of the academy in the generation and legitimation of specific configurations of power. This essay begins, accordingly, by elaborating this early conception of professionalism and showing how it informs twentieth century arguments on behalf of tenure, academic freedom, and the participation of faculty in institutional governance. The explicitly political reading of professionalism I offer as an alternative better explains how the academic workforce in recent decades has been thoroughly reconfigured in accordance with neoliberal imperatives. The downside of this reading, however, is that it deprives us of the justification for tenure, academic freedom, and shared governance that rested on an apolitical representation of the professoriate. I close, therefore, by asking what we stand to lose if we relinquish this ideal, but I then ask what costs we are likely to incur if we cling to a notion that compromises our ability to grasp the faculty’s current situation.

scholarly journals Revitalizing your library faculty governance: Five tips to increase involvement

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Ashley T. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
State University ◽  
Faculty Governance ◽  
Academic Librarian ◽  
Faculty Status

If you’re an academic librarian with faculty status, you know that this status comes with an equal portion of benefit and burden. Some of the benefits are academic freedom, support for scholarship, and elevated status on campus (though not necessarily higher pay). Some library faculty are even eligible for tenure (though at my institution, Kennesaw State University, we are not). On the flipside of these benefits are a few things I would consider burdens, such as tedious annual reviews and extensive service requirements. Library faculty governance, I would argue, falls somewhere in between a benefit and a burden.

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