POSTED BY KELLY HAND
The new issue of Academe—guest-edited by Henry Reichman, chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and a contributing editor for Academe Blog—takes a critical look at the mounting global assault on academic freedom. Articles focus on threats to socially engaged scholars abroad, attacks on gender studies in Europe and Brazil, self-censoring by scholars of China, neoliberal reforms to higher education in Russia and Egypt, obstacles to academic freedom in Canada and the United Kingdom, and other topics.
Follow the links in the table of contents below or read the entire issue at https://www.aaup.org/issue/fall-2019.
FEATURES
Fighting to Protect—and Define—Academic Freedom
For two decades, Scholars at Risk has assisted academics across the globe.
By Robert Quinn
Brazil’s Far-Right President, University Autonomy, and Academic Freedom
A frontal attack on universities by “The Trump of the Tropics.”
By James N. Green
Academic Freedom in Canada: A Labor Law Right
Union contracts protect academic freedom.
By David Robinson
Gender Studies and the Dismantling of Critical Knowledge in Europe
Assaults on gender studies are part of an attack on democracy.
By David Paternotte
Academic Freedom in the United Kingdom
Austerity and market logic have limited academic freedom.
By Lori Allen
Academic Freedom and China
Every instructor walks on thin ice.
By Jennifer Ruth and Yu Xiao
Academic Rights in Russia and the Internationalization of Higher Education
International ties have divided Russian educators.
By Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Neoliberal Coup at the American University in Cairo (online only)
The main threat comes not from Egypt’s authoritarian regime but from an American board of trustees.
By Nidal al-Muallim
Rebuilding “Iowa Nice” in Shared Governance: From Sanction to Collaboration (online only)
A faculty senate committee works to address governance concerns.
By Sandra Daack-Hirsch, Frank Durham, Russell Ganim, Edward Gillan, and Justine Kolker
Knowledge for the Common Good (online only)
A plenary presentation from the AAUP’s 2019 annual conference.
By Joan W. Scott
Political Interference with Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Public Universities (online only)
The threat of governmental suppression of academic inquiry.
By Gene Nichol
BOOK REVIEWS
Contingency and the Academic Ecosystem
Caprice Lawless reviews The Adjunct Underclass by Herb Childress.
Rethinking Academic Hunger Games
Tina M. Kelleher reviews Generous Thinking by Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
The Twentieth-Century Saga of an Iconoclastic University
Marjorie Heins reviews A Light in Dark Times by Judith Friedlander.
Institutions for Useful Knowledge
R. Douglas Hurt reviews Land-Grant Universities and Popular Revolt by Nathan M. Sorber and Land-Grant Universities for the Future by Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee
CHAPTER PROFILE
Hampshire College AAUP Chapter
COLUMNS
From the Editor: Academic Freedom around the World
State of the Profession: Maintaining Academic Standards in Dual-Enrollment Courses
Legal Watch: Post-Janus Litigation
NOTA BENE
New JAF Volume and Call for Papers
Amicus Brief Addresses LGBTQ Discrimination
Recent Academic Freedom Fund Grants
Opposition to Government Intrusion at Duke–UNC Consortium
Second Vice President Election
