Academic Freedom and the Corporate University.
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Heightened commercialism on campus is pulling universities and their faculties away from higher education's core commitment to academic research, teaching, and the production of reliable public knowledge. Nearly a century ago, similar threats led to the birth of a new faculty organization?the American Association of University Professors?dedicated to advancing the scholarly professions across all disciplines and to safeguarding intellectual and academic freedom. The founding of the AAUP in 1915 was largely a response to the overweening influence that powerful corporate interests and wealthy donors then exerted over the internal academic affairs of American colleges and universities. In their classic 1955 history, The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States, Richard Hofstadter and Walter Metzger point to nearly a dozen well-documented academic freedom cases between the late 1880s
Author: Jennifer Washburn
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W237400829