BY RACHEL IDA BUFF
We are pleased to announce the publication of volume 11 of the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom. The journal features scholarship on academic freedom and on its relation to shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining. This year’s volume considers the opposing visions of the governed campus and the “managed campus.” As the introduction to the volume argues, “in its extreme manifestation, the managed campus is a graveyard for academic freedom. And when the faculty role in decision-making is undermined, it may well lead to the early graves of faculty, staff, and students forced to return to campus without adequate protections.”
The volume’s nine essays and a PowerPoint afterword address a wide range of topics, including broad analyses of managerial practices; discussions of their impact on specific populations such as international, first-generation, and low-income students; and case studies that chronicle past and present work to assert the importance of shared governance and that examine threats to, or blatant disregard for, the faculty role in decision-making. While contributors represent a wide range of academic fields, one noteworthy contributor is an adorable stuffed-bear “brand ambassador.” Follow the links to each article in the table of contents below or access the complete volume at https://www.aaup.org/JAF11.
We are also excited to share a new call for papers, “Practices of Academic Freedom in Times of Austerity,” for the twelfth volume of the journal, scheduled for publication in fall 2021.
The Journal of Academic Freedom is supported by funding from the AAUP Foundation.
Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction
By Rachel Ida Buff
Trickle-Down Managerialism: Accountable Faculty in the Financialized University of Managers
By J. Paul Narkunas
On Borders and Academic Freedom: Noncitizen Students and the Limits of Rights
By Abigail Boggs
Gentrifying the University and Disempowering the Professoriate: Professionalizing Academic Administration for Neoliberal Governance
By Beth F. Baker
What I Learned in the Faculty Senate
By Michael Bérubé
The Rollins College Inquiry of 1933 and the AAUP’s Struggle for Shared Governance at Small Colleges
By Jack C. Lane
Leadership during a Budget Crisis and Its Impact on Academic Programs, Teaching, and Research
By Kim Song and Patricia Boyer
Leadership Threats to Shared Governance in Higher Education
By Robert A. Scott
How Ego, Greed, and Hubris (Almost) Destroyed a University: Implications for Academic Freedom
By Howard Karger
Why Revenue Generation Can’t Solve the Crisis in Higher Education, Or, What’s That Smell?
By Nan Enstad
Afterword: “Can the Managerial Technique Speak”?
By Wavy the Bear
