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The Academic Bill of Rights Debate - A Handbook (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Academic Bill of Rights Debate - A Handbook (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Academic Bill of Rights was introduced in 2003 after two
decades of conservative critiques of higher education and its
faculty. Its goal was to generate legislative initiatives to rein
in the "tenured radicals" who were allegedly dominating higher
education and infringing on the academic freedom rights of
conservative students. At its root, the debate revolves around some
core questions: who should teach, and who has the knowledge and
training to hire and evaluate faculty; what knowledge should be
taught; and, most fundamentally, who should make these decisions?
Should it be trained faculty, who are specialists in their fields
and who were hired to teach and advance knowledge? Or should it be
politicians or outsiders, who may be empowered by legislation to
interfere in academic decisions? The academic freedom of faculty,
and the independence of higher education, depends on the answers to
these questions. This book is the first to bring together a variety
of critiques of the Academic Bill of Rights. Furthermore, by
including some works by David Horowitz and his critics, as well as
websites and a bibliography reflecting various points of view, it
gives life to the debate, showing some of the give and take of the
arguments. This collection also presents the background on the
historical context of academic freedom, showing its fragility and
therefore the importance of preserving it. Also featured are some
core documents (such as the AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles on
Academic Freedom and Tenure) that are central to the debates. Some
of the conservative critiques of higher education are identified in
the selective annotated bibliography chapter. And, case studies of
how the ABOR wascontested in three states where it was introduced
as legislation are also included. Finally, this book attempts to
refocus concerns about higher education on the real issue: its
growing domination by corporate values and interests, converting
higher education from a public good into an increasingly private
commodity.
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