Contents
Volume One, 2010

Essays
Professionalization as the Basis for Academic Freedom and Faculty
Governance
By Larry Gerber

The AAUP, Academic Freedom, and the Cold War
By Phillip Deery

The Eroding Foundations of Academic Freedom and Professional Integrity:
Implications of the Diminishing Proportion of Tenured Faculty for
Organizational Effectiveness in Higher Education
By Ernst Benjamin

Ward Churchill at the Dalton Trumbo Fountain: Academic Freedom in the
Aftermath of 9/11 (Corrected essay, posted February 22, 2010)
By Ellen Schrecker

The Last Indian Standing: Shared Governance in the Shadow of History          
By Cary Nelson                                                                                

The Demise of Shared Governance at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
By Nancy D. Campbell and Jane Koretz

Paranoia and Professionalization: The Importance of Graduate Student
Academic Freedom
By Dan Colson

Toward an Autonomous Antioch College: The Story of the Nonstop Liberal
Arts Institute
By Jean Gregorek

Hidden (and Not-So-Hidden) New Threats to Faculty Governance
By Jan H. Blits

Academic Freedom and the Digital Revolution
By Ashley Dawson

Conference Proceedings
Rethinking Academic Traditions for Twenty-First-Century Faculty
By Judith M. Gappa and Ann E. Austin

Institutionalized Attacks on Academic Freedom: The Impact of Mandates by
State Departments of Education and National Accreditation Agencies on
Academic Freedom
By John M. Elmore

The Corporatization of American Higher Education: Merit Pay Trumps
Academic Freedom
By Robert P. Engvall

"I Have No Idea What You Do Out Here": Community Colleges, Academic
Freedom, and the University as Global Marketplace
By Libby Garland and Eben Wood

Copyright 2010, American Association of University Professors

Editor
Cary Nelson
University of Illinois
AAUP President

Managing Editor
Gwendolyn Bradley
AAUP Communications Director

Copyeditor
Jennifer Salopek

Editorial Board
Ernst Benjamin
Past AAUP General Secretary

Michael Bérubé
Pennsylvania State University

Matthew Finkin
University of Illinois

Mary Gray
American University

Jordan Kurland
AAUP Associate General Secretary

Anita Levy
AAUP Associate Secretary

Debra Nails
Michigan State University

Robert Post
Yale University

David Rabban
University of Texas

Adolph Reed
University of Pennsylvania

Gary Rhoades
University of Arizona
AAUP General Secretary

Ellen Schrecker
Yeshiva University
About the Journal
With this issue we introduce a new
online project—the
AAUP Journal of
Academic Freedom
. Scholarship on
academic freedom—and on its relation
to shared governance, tenure, and
collective bargaining
is typically
scattered across a wide range of
disciplines. There has been no single
journal devoted to the subject. Now
there is. It is published by the
organization most responsible for
defining academic freedom.
                  
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