Future of Academic Freedom
Future of Academic Freedom At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today-from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multicultural…
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Future of Academic Freedom
At the bottom of every controversy embroiling the university today-from debates over hate-speech codes to the reorganization of the academy as a multicultural institution-is the concept of academic freedom. Now nine leading academics, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Edward Said, Richard Rorty, and Joan W. But academic freedom is almost never mentioned in these debates.
"Louis Menand has assembled The Future of Academic Freedom to better define and delineate what should and should not happen within our colleges and universities. . . . Scott, consider the problems confronting the American University in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. The whole extremely learned yet accessible debate exploits the freedoms it extols, tackling sensitive subjects such as ethnicity and ethics head-on."-Publishers Weekly "The essays are not only sharp, elegant