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Book SynopsisTrade Review. . . first and foremost, this is about professors—their rights and limits both in and out of the classroom. Should they be able to toss out new, sometimes controversial ideas to help students think in different ways? Are they allowed to say and do what they want on their own time? Reichman's experience as both a professor and an AAUP officer and chair of one of its committees give weight to his arguments.
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Library JournalReichman's tone is somehow hopeful, as if he's arming advocates with the history, knowledge and tools they need to fight the good fight — not just for the future of academic freedom but for higher education in general.
—Colleen Flaherty,
Inside Higher EdHenry Reichman's fine book needs to be read and discussed . . . Refreshingly free of vanguardism, but deeply convinced of (and convincing on) the strengths and vulnerabilities of academic freedom in his unevenly admirable homeland, he casts the chapters gathered here as responses to aptly searching questions . . . Joan Scott's Foreword strikes notes of candour, insight, and defiance that echo through Reichman's, rich, unyielding prose.
—Len Findlay, University of Saskatchewan,
CAUT Bulletin (Canadian Association of University Teachers)Table of ContentsForeword, by Joan Wallach Scott
Preface
1. Does Academic Freedom Have a Future?
2. How Can Academic Freedom Be Justified?
3. Can Faculty Speak Freely as Citizens?
4. Can I Tweet That?
5. Can Outside Donors Endanger Academic Freedom?
6. Will Online Education Cure the "Cost Disease"?
7. Do Students Have Academic Freedom?
8. Are Invited Speakers Entitled to a Platform?
9. Can Unions Defend Academic Freedom?
10. What Is the Future of Academic Freedom under the
Trump Regime?
Notes
Index
