POSTED BY KELLY HAND
The new September–October issue of Academe focuses on a profession that increasingly finds itself “in the crosshairs.” Articles address recent and historical instances of targeted harassment of faculty, the obligations of tenure-track faculty toward colleagues on contingent appointments, and the suppression of a course scrutinizing collegiate athletics. Follow the links in the table of contents below or on the AAUP website at https://www.aaup.org/september-october-2017.
FEATURES
Faculty Rights in the Classroom
Classroom activities remain a faculty responsibility.
By Aaron Nisenson
Exhuming McCarthy (Meet Me at the Book Burning)
Faculty members respond to the Professor Watchlist.
By Hans-Joerg Tiede
Surviving Attacks on Academic Freedom
A lesson from the past.
By Larry Gara
“Tenured Allies” and the Normalization of Contingent Labor
Tenured faculty need to step up.
By Carolyn Betensky
Our Job Was to Fix It
An effort to improve the treatment of non-tenure-track faculty.
By Michael Bérubé
Academic Freedom, Meet Big-Time College Sports
Can sports and its money control the curriculum?
By Jay Smith
How Should Textbook Authorship Count in Evaluating Scholarly Merit, or Should It Count at All? (online only)
Factors for tenure and promotion need constant reevaluation.
By Nicky Hayes and Robert J. Sternberg
A Short Interviewing Guide (online only)
Navigating the interview process in a competitive academic job market.
By Florence Neymotin
The Danger of a Liberal Arts Education (online only)
The importance of “becoming.”
By Ryan McIlhenny
BOOK REVIEWS
Paying the Price of a Broken System
Anastasia C. Wilson reviews Paying the Price by Sara Goldrick-Rab.
The Failure of Privatization
Henry Reichman reviews The Great Mistake by Christopher Newfield.
COLUMNS
From the Editor: In the Crosshairs
By Aaron Barlow
Faculty Forum: Telling Stories to Defend Our Scholarship
By Arlene Stein
State of the Profession: Stripping Academic Freedom from Administrators
By James L. Turk
Legal Watch: Friedrichs Redux?
By Risa L. Lieberwitz
CHAPTER PROFILE
University of Connecticut AAUP Chapter
NOTA BENE
Amicus Brief in Support of Climate Scientists
Border Patrol Searches of Electronic Devices
AAUP Opposes Weakening of ABA Standards
The saddest thing about the attacks on professor’s tenure, is that this policy is the heart and soul of a university. You pay for good professors, that know their subject and produce students on their way to an education.
it is totally sick what they are doing to adjunct teachers. No office, no benefits, yearly contacts surely show that the leaders of these colleges and universities have not one idea of what a university if about. Too many board members from big business that think that running a university is running a company. It is not. From a person looking in from the outside its seems that way too many colleges are letting the students run the show
If there is one right this country has it is that every person, student, worker, professor, whoever has “Freedom of Speech.” If you don’t agree with the comment debate it out. Take a few hours and sit down with Plato’s
Dialogues and notice how Socrates deals with this problems. There was no safe space in Athens.
This is going to be a big fight and I’m sure that many professors are up to it. But this is not what they should be doing. Teaching is what they should be doing Taking students along that never ending road to education. And remember it is never ending.