Challenges to Academic Freedom - Joseph C. Hermanowicz

Challenges to Academic Freedom

By: Joseph C. Hermanowicz (Editor)

Paperback | 5 May 2022

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A must-read collection on contemporary threats to academic freedom.

Academic freedom is an idea so closely associated with academic work-at least in the West-that it assumes a defining characteristic of the academic profession. Yet it is under recurring threat. Confusion endures about what professors have a defensible right to say or publish, particularly in extramural forums like social media. At least one source of the confusion in the United States is the way in which academic freedom is often intertwined with a constitutional freedom of speech. Though related, the freedoms are distinct.

In Challenges to Academic Freedom, Joseph C. Hermanowicz argues that, contrary to many historic views, academic freedom is not static. Rather, we may view academic freedom as a set of relational practices that change over time and place. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of fields, this volume examines the current conditions, as well as recent developments, in the status of academic freedom in the United States.

Authors consider topics such as:
  • the sources of recurring threat to academic freedom;
  • administrative interference and overreach;
  • the effects of administrative law on academic work, carried out under the auspices of Title IX legislation, diversity and inclusion offices, research misconduct tribunals, and institutional review boards;
  • the tenuous tie between academic freedom and the law, and what to do about it;
  • the highly contested arena of extramural speech and social media; and
  • academic freedom in a contingent academy.
Adopting varied epistemological bases to engage their subject matter, the contributors demonstrate perspectives that are, by turn, case study analyses, historical, legal-analytic, formal-empirical, and policy oriented. Traversing such conceptual range, Challenges to Academic Freedom demonstrates the imperative of academic freedom to producing outstanding scholarly work amid the concept's entanglements in the twenty-first century.

Contributors: Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Timothy Reese Cain, Dan Clawson, Joseph C. Hermanowicz, Philip Lee, Gary Rhoades, Laura Stark, John R. Thelin, Hans-Joerg Tiede, Gaye Tuchman, Stephen Turner, Eve Weinbaum

About the Author

Joseph C. Hermanowicz (ATHENS, GA) is a professor of sociology at the University of Georgia. He is the editor of The American Academic Profession: Transformation in Contemporary Higher Education and the author of Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers.

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