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10%OFF. Ed(S): Carvalho, Edward J.; Downing, David B. - Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era - 9780230108349 - V9780230108349
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Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era

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Description for Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era Hardback. This timely collection features an impressive assembly of the nation's leading intellectuals, addressing some of the most urgent issues facing higher education in the United States today. Editor(s): Carvalho, Edward J.; Downing, David B. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
Academic freedom has been a principle that undergirds the university since 1915. Beyond this, it also protects a spirit of free inquiry essential to a democratic society. But in the post-9/11 present, the basic principles of academic freedom have been deeply challenged. There have been many startling instances where the rhetoric of national security and terror, corporate interests, and privatization have cast a pall over the terrain of academic freedom. In the post-9/11 university, professors face job loss or tenure denial for speaking against state power, while their students pay more tuition and fall deeper in debt. This timely collection ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Education, Politics and Public Life
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230108349
SKU
V9780230108349
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About . Ed(S): Carvalho, Edward J.; Downing, David B.
EDWARD CARVALHO Instructor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.   DAVID DOWNING Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.   

Reviews for Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era
'A timely and distinguished contribution to a very important debate. In the years since 9/11, government has become more authoritarian at all levels, with increasing surveillance, secrecy, and illegal actions. In this toxic climate for academic freedom and intellectual activism, a book like this is a useful instrument for talking up and talking back to power's efforts to silence dissent. ... Read more

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