POSTED BY SARAH MINK
Spring 2020 | Vol. 106, No. 2
The spring 2020 issue of Academe, inspired by the AAUP’s statement In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education, examines the complexities—conceptual, critical, structural, and political—of the production of knowledge. Joan W. Scott, professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, served as the guest editor of this special issue of the magazine.
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FEATURES
Rebellion, Authority, and Knowledge
Disciplined thought and expertise are essential to the advancement of knowledge.
By Robert Post
The Big Secret in the Academy Is That Most Research Is Secret
The dangerous rift between open and classified research.
By Kate Brown
A Dissenting View from the Humanities on the AAUP’s Statement on Knowledge
In defense of critical inquiry.
By Judith Butler
Dialogue across Divides
The humanities can provide understanding across disciplines.
By Joy Connolly
Academic Freedom as Democratization
Faculty must be involved in all aspects of university decision-making.
By Christopher Newfield
Some Exigent Words about Financial Exigency (online only)
Meaningful engagement with faculty is essential in times of crisis.
By Michael Bérubé
Data Snapshot: Survey Data on Attitudes toward Faculty Freedom of Expression (online only)
How might political views influence attitudes toward academic freedom?
By Hans-Joerg Tiede
BOOK REVIEWS
Snowflakes and Syllabi
Brian Hutler reviews What Snowflakes Get Right by Ulrich Baer.
Understanding Students Who Are Parents
Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson reviews Back in School by A. Fiona Pearson.
Liberal Education Needs Integration, Not Unbundling
Rebecca Pope-Ruark reviews College Made Whole by Chris W. Gallagher.
Should Only the Strong Survive?
Lawrence Stelmach and Allison A. Buskirk-Cohen review Strategic Mergers in Higher Education by Ricardo Azziz, Guilbert C. Hentschke, Lloyd A. Jacobs, and Bonita C. Jacobs.
Rebalancing Power in the Gig Academy
Roger G. Baldwin reviews The Gig Academy by Adrianna Kezar, Tom DePaola, and Daniel T. Scott.
CHAPTER PROFILE
COLUMNS
From the Editor: The Politics of Knowledge
From the President: Eight Years of Organizing for Change
Legal Watch: Two Cases to Watch
NOTA BENE
Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
2019–20 Faculty Compensation Survey Data
Graduate Employees Strike at UCSC
Legal Watch: Two Cases to Watch
AAUP BUSINESS
Developments Relating to Association Censure
