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Academic Freedom Under Siege - Higher Education in East Asia, the U.S. and Australia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Academic Freedom Under Siege - Higher Education in East Asia, the U.S. and Australia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 54
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This book argues that academic freedom in higher education in East
Asia, the U.S. and Australia is under stress. Academic freedom
means freedom to teach, research, and serve in multiple political
and social roles based on professional principles. It is closely
linked to shared governance, in which academics participate in and
influence decision making in core academic concerns such as
choosing new faculty, faculty promotion, tenure decisions and the
approval of new academic programs. In different countries and
regions, the duress confronting academic freedom may come from
different directions, and the ability of faculty to share power can
vary greatly. In authoritarian mainland China, it is mostly
political and ideological controls that greatly affect academic
freedom, and shared governance is very much limited. In
semi-democracies like Hong Kong and Macau and democracies like
Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the U.S. and Australia, corporatization
and commercialization have had great impact on both academic
freedom and shared governance. The result is that the roles
professors play within academia are continually being diminished
and the academic profession is struggling to maintain its ground.
Similar developments are also occurring in Europe. These
developments should cause great concern to educators, researchers
and policymakers everywhere. The authors collected here present
attempts to learn from current practice in order to move policy
into directions that will help protect higher education as a common
good. This book highlights the importance of academic freedom and
provides insights into the ways it is being infringed both by
commercialization and corporatization on the one hand and political
repression on the other. It vividly illustrates detailed case
studies and empirical data that make it a compelling read.-
Professor Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto, Canada Academic
freedom is as important today as at any time in the last century.
The authors point out the challenges that academic freedom faces on
a global scale. The import of the book is in its comparative
perspective steeped in data and analysis. Thoughtful. Cogent.
Compelling. - Professor William G. Tierney and Professor
Wilbur-Kieffer, University of Southern California, United States
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