Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus

ISBN-13: 9780521689717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str.

Donald Alexander Downs

Opis

This book deals with the decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty that has swept higher education in America over the last decade and a half and with what needs to be done to reverse this trend. Drawing on personal experience as well as research, Downs analyzes the origins and development of the problem, and shows how political organization of students and faculty can lead to constructive change. He presents four case studies that illustrate this thesis.

Recenzje

"Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, the product of considerable scholarship, is unequivocal in the positions it holds. Most of all, it is thought provoking and challenging. Agreement with all of Down's conclusions is neither important nor necessary, but this book needs to be read, discussed, and debated and, as a profession we need to be mindful of his perspective. It is a book that should find its way on the reading lists of those who in any way are engaged in the political, cultural, and social issues that so often frame campus life."
Journal of College Student Development

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction and Background: 1. The return of the proprietary university and the new politics of free speech and civil liberty; 2. Background: the rise of anti-free speech and liberty ideologies; Part II. Case Studies in the Politics of Civil Liberty on Campus: 3. Columbia's sexual misconduct policy: civil liberty vs. solidarity; 4. Berkeley and the rise of the anti-free speech movement; 5. Undue process at Penn; 6. Renewal: the rise of the free speech movement at Wisconsin; 7. Abolition in the Wisconsin faculty senate and its aftermath; 8. Some conclusions concerning civil liberty and political strategy.