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Part of the acclaimed Higher Ed Leadership Essentials series, this book surveys academic freedom's history and its application in today's universities. Academic freedom is once again at the epicenter of the crisis in higher education. A community college instructor in Iowa is pressured to resign after his pro-antifa social media comments garner vicious harassment that administrators find threatening to campus safety. A tenured biology professor at a college on Long Island is threatened with dismissal because she allegedly grades students too strictly. And in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a conservative activist calls on his followers to take advantage of online classes to send any and all videos of blatant indoctrination to his organization so that it might expose and blacklist leftist professors. These incidents from the 201920 academic year represent only the tip of the iceberg. Academic freedom, long heralded as a core value of American higher education, may now be in as much

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. History
2. Research
3. Teaching
4. Citizenship
5. Tenure
6. Law
7. Students
8. Knowledge
Appendix: Principles of Academic Freedom
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Understanding Academic Freedom

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 30 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9781421442150
      978-1421442150
      ISBN-10 1421442159
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Part of the acclaimed Higher Ed Leadership Essentials series, this book surveys academic freedom's history and its application in today's universities. Academic freedom is once again at the epicenter of the crisis in higher education. A community college instructor in Iowa is pressured to resign after his pro-antifa social media comments garner vicious harassment that administrators find threatening to campus safety. A tenured biology professor at a college on Long Island is threatened with dismissal because she allegedly grades students too strictly. And in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a conservative activist calls on his followers to take advantage of online classes to send any and all videos of blatant indoctrination to his organization so that it might expose and blacklist leftist professors. These incidents from the 201920 academic year represent only the tip of the iceberg. Academic freedom, long heralded as a core value of American higher education, may now be in as much

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. History
      2. Research
      3. Teaching
      4. Citizenship
      5. Tenure
      6. Law
      7. Students
      8. Knowledge
      Appendix: Principles of Academic Freedom
      Further Reading
      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Index

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