{"product_id":"no-university-is-an-island-9780814758595","title":"No University Is an Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education's independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. This book offers a comprehensive account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNelson is as determined to protect the academic freedom of contingent faculty as of full professors . . . he speaks up not only for academic freedom, but for better wages and conditions. -- Dan Clawson * Against the Current *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction: What Is Academic Freedom?  1 The Three-Legged Stool: Academic Freedom, Shared Governance, and Tenure 2 How a Campus Loses Its Way: Sixteen Threats to Academic Freedom 3 Legacies of Misrule: Our Contingent Future  4 Barefoot in New Zealand: Political Correctness on Campus 5 The Future of Faculty Unionization 6 Graduate-Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor 7 On Weakened Ground: The AAUP, Pedagogy, and the Struggle over Academic Freedom 8 No Campus Is an Island: Reflections on the AAUP Presidency 9 Evolution or Devolution: The Future of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure Bibliography  Index  About the Author","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405899080023,"sku":"9780814758595","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814758595.jpg?v=1730493828","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/no-university-is-an-island-9780814758595","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}