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9780814758595.
No University Is an Island
(
Subtitle:
Saving Academic Freedom)
by
Cary Nelson
( Hardback)
ISBN:
9780814758595
Publisher:
New York University Press
Price:
£18.99
Published in UK:
03/02/2010
The 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. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited with paltry salaries for full-time work, politics and profit rather than intellectual freedom govern decision-making, and professors are being monitored for the topics they teach.
No University Is an Island
offers a comprehensive account of the social, political, and cultural forces undermining academic freedom. At once witty and devastating, it confronts these threats with exceptional frankness, then offers a prescription for higher education’s renewal. In an insider’s account of how the primary organization for faculty members nationwide has fought the culture wars, Cary Nelson, the current President of the American Association of University Professors, unveils struggles over governance and unionization and the increasing corporatization of higher education. Peppered throughout with previously unreported, and sometimes incendiary, higher education anecdotes, Nelson is at his flame-throwing best. The book calls on higher education’s advocates of both the Left and the Right to temper conviction with tolerance and focus on higher education’s real injustices. Nelson demands we stop denying teachers, student workers, and other employees a living wage and basic rights. He urges unions to take up the larger cause of justice. And he challenges his own and other academic organizations to embrace greater democracy. With broad and crucial implications for the future,
No University Is an Island
will be the benchmark against which we measure the current definitive struggle for academic freedom.
Review Quote:
“If I were Cary’s dean I’d fire him immediately.” Stanley Fish “A report from the front lines, from the most influential president of the AAUP in the past fifty years.” Jeffrey Williams, Carnegie Mellon University “In the midst of a torrent of threats to academic freedom in higher education,
No University Is an Island
arrives to tell us why to propose solutions. As Nelson makes clear, all of our freedoms depend on our ability to educate our students to be critical citizens. Everyone concerned about the future of freedom should read this book.” Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
"Academic freedom, as imbedded in the customs and practices of institutions of higher education, is an essential ingredient of intellectual life. It ensures the remarkable progress in all disciplines and underpins the vast changes that have collectively defined the world in which we live. It is difficult, if not impossible to imagine that the modern university could not exist, much less succeed, without it....
Cary Nelson seeks to provide [guidance for the futureof academic freedom] in this engaging book that starts with the premise that academic freedom is under attack and that it needs “saving”.... The scholarship is extensive and makes several telling points...." - Charles R. Middleton,
Times Higher Education
