Inventing Academic Freedom

Author : Peter C. Kent
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459501492

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Inventing Academic Freedom by Peter C. Kent Pdf

In 1968, there was political ferment everywhere. In Paris, students were in the streets. In the U.S., civil rights, the Vietnam War, and protests against the draft brought out millions. In this atmosphere, a young Jewish-American professor in the quiet town of Fredericton, New Brunswick sparked a controversy that established the principles of academic freedom on Canadian campuses. Norman Strax was an unlikely figure in a conservative town with a sleepy university campus. He didn't dress like other faculty members, he drove a funny car, and he didn't socialize much with his colleagues. The university president, Colin Mackay, was a young scion of the local establishment who ran the university as if it belonged to him. With his links to Lord Beaverbrook, the Irvings, and the provincial government, he was confident of support for his paternalistic way of doing things. When Strax and some students protested a new library regulation, Colin Mackay abruptly suspended Strax from his teaching position. A sit-in followed, and the university dragged Strax into court. Before long, the provincial government and the judiciary were involved. So were university professors across Canada. In the end, the Strax Affair was the catalyst for a new approach to governance at Canadian universities and was key to establishing the principles of academic freedom.

Author : Stanley Fish
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226064314

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Versions of Academic Freedom by Stanley Fish Pdf

Advocates of academic freedom often view it as a variation of the right to free speech and an essential feature of democracy. Stanley Fish argues here for a narrower conception of academic freedom, one that does not grant academics a legal status different from other professionals. Providing a blueprint for the study of academic freedom, Fish breaks down the schools of thought on the subject, which range from the idea that academic freedom is justified by the common good or by academic exceptionalism, to its potential for critique or indeed revolution. Fish himself belongs to what he calls the It s Just a Job school: while academics need the latitude call it freedom if you like necessary to perform their professional activities, they are not free in any special sense to do anything but their jobs. Academic freedom, Fish argues, should be justified only by the specific educational good that academics offer. Defending the university in all its glorious narrowness as a place of disinterested inquiry, Fish offers a bracing corrective to academic orthodoxy."

Author : Henry Reichman
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421428581

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The Future of Academic Freedom by Henry Reichman Pdf

The issues Reichman considers—which are the subjects of daily conversation on college and university campuses nationwide as well as in the media—will fascinate general readers, students, and scholars alike.

Author : Robert Morrison MacIver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:464016162

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Academic Freedom in Our Time by Robert Morrison MacIver Pdf

Author : Daniel Gordon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000647761

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What is Academic Freedom? by Daniel Gordon Pdf

This book explores the history of the debate, from 1915 to the present, about the meaning of academic freedom, particularly as concerns political activism on the college campus. The book introduces readers to the origins of the modern research university in the United States, the professionalization of the role of the university teacher, and the rise of alternative conceptions of academic freedom challenging the professional model and radicalizing the image of the university. Leading thinkers on the subject of academic freedom—Arthur Lovejoy, Angela Davis, Alexander Meiklejohn, Edward W. Said, among others—spring to life. What is the relationship between freedom of speech and academic freedom? Should communists be allowed to teach? What constitutes unacceptable political "indoctrination" in the classroom? What are the implications for academic freedom of creating Black Studies and Women's Studies departments? Do academic boycotts, such as those directed against Israel, violate the spirit of academic freedom? The book provides the context for these debates. Instead of opining as a judge, the author discloses the legal, philosophical, political, and semantic disagreements in each controversy. The book will appeal to readers across the social sciences and humanities with interests in scholarly freedom and academic life. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Eric Barendt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847316103

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Academic Freedom and the Law by Eric Barendt Pdf

Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. The book outlines the various claims which may be made to academic freedom by individual university teachers and by universities and other higher education institutions, and it examines the justifications which have been put forward for these claims. Three separate chapters deal with the legal principles of academic freedom in the UK, Germany, and the USA. A further chapter is devoted to the restrictions on freedom of research which may be imposed by the regulation of clinical trials, by intellectual property laws, and by the terms of contracts made between researchers and the companies sponsoring medical and other research. The book also examines the impact of recent terrorism laws on the teaching and research freedom of academics, and it discusses their freedom to speak about general political and social topics unrelated to their work. This is the first comparative study of a subject of fundamental importance to all academics and others working in universities. It emphasises the importance of academic freedom, while pointing out that, on occasion, exaggerated claims have been made to its exercise.

Author : James L. Turk
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781459406292

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Academic Freedom in Conflict by James L. Turk Pdf

For more than a century academics have had unique rights not enjoyed by other citizens -- to speak, teach, and write freely. Central to the case for academic freedom is that scholars must be able to voice their views free of fear in order for society to gain a better understanding of ourselves and our world. Academic freedom has always faced challenges. Professors have been pressed to alter their work because it offends powerful interests -- both inside and outside the university. Some have been fired or denied jobs for their political views, their criticisms of colleagues and administrators, and their refusal to buckle under corporate pressures to hush up research findings. The sixteen contributors to this volume cite many such instances in Canada and the U.S. More significantly, they point out how governments, corporations, and university administrators today are seeking to narrow academic freedom. Among them: Major donors are acquiring control over university teaching and even hiring decisions University administrators are firing professors with unpopular political views, while pretending that the reasons for their decisions lie elsewhere Governments are using funding mechanisms to force-feed research in some areas, while shutting down inquiry in others Campus-wide policies enforcing civility rules are preventing criticism and debate within a university Judges are issuing decisions which reverse previous rulings supporting academic freedom in the U.S. and Canada Together the contributors to this book document the many arenas in which academic freedom is in jeopardy and explore its legitimate limits.

Author : Anthony Arblaster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1112513222

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Academic Freedom by Anthony Arblaster Pdf

Author : Julie A. Reuben
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226710204

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The Making of the Modern University by Julie A. Reuben Pdf

Based on extensive research at eight universities - Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and California at Berkeley - Reuben examines the aims of university reformers in the context of nineteenth-century ideas about truth. She argues that these educators tried to apply new scientific standards to moral education, but that their modernization efforts ultimately failed.

Author : Walter P. Metzger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Academic freedom
ISBN : UOM:39015005529592

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Academic Freedom in the Age of the University by Walter P. Metzger Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Pincoffs, Edmund L., ed
ISBN : OCLC:640027196

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The Concept of Academic Freedom by Anonim Pdf

Author : Conference on the Concept of Academic Freedom Staf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835777553

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The Concept of Academic Freedom by Conference on the Concept of Academic Freedom Staf Pdf

Author : Michael Ignatieff,Stefan Roch
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789633862346

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Academic Freedom by Michael Ignatieff,Stefan Roch Pdf

Academic freedom—the institutional autonomy of scientific, research and teaching institutions, and the freedom of individual scholars and researchers to pursue controversial research and publish controversial opinions—is a cornerstone of any free society. Today this freedom is under attack from the state in many countries—Russia, Turkey, Venezuela, Hungary, China—but it is also under question from within academe. Bitter disputes have erupted on American campuses, for example, about the limits of free speech and about whether liberal academic freedoms have degenerated into a form of coercive political correctness. Beyond the academy itself, among the general public, academic freedom is contested ground. As Robert Post of Yale Law School has put it, academic freedom is "the price the public must pay in return for the social good of advancing knowledge." Populist currents of political opinion are questioning the price a society pays for the freedom of its 'experts' and professors.

Author : Paul Bidwell,L. M. Findlay
Publisher : Purich Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063161033

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Pursuing Academic Freedom by Paul Bidwell,L. M. Findlay Pdf

Academic freedom suggests the ability to investigate and openly discuss all topics and ideas, even those which may seem irrelevant, controversial, or even dangerous. However, academic freedom often means something quite different in practice. This collection of essays explores this discrepancy between theory and reality in a wide range of examples and analyses, including a detailed examination of the history of academic freedom, the complexities of its practice in different institutional settings, and some of challenges it currently faces.

Author : Kazuhide Odaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509920334

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The Right to Employee Inventions in Patent Law by Kazuhide Odaki Pdf

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends. This book addresses the issue through reference to recent, large-scale surveys on the motivation of employee inventors (in Europe, the United States and Japan) and studies in social psychology and econometrics, arguing that the compensation is unlikely to boost the motivation, productivity and creativity of employee inventors, and thereby encourage the creation of inventions. It also discusses the ownership of inventions made by university researchers, giving due consideration to the need to ensure open science and their academic freedom. Challenging popular assumptions, this book provides a solution to a critical issue by arguing that compensation for employee inventions should not be made mandatory regardless of jurisdiction because there is no legitimate reason to require employers to pay it. This means that patent law does not need to give employee inventors an 'incentive to invent' separately from the 'incentive to innovate' which is already given to employers.