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. People who want to keep up with the field
thus face a difficult task. Moreover, there is no one place to track the
developing international discussion about academic freedom and its collateral
issues. Edited collections and special issues of journals have helped fill the
need for many years, but 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.
Publishing online gives us many advantages, the first being the ability to
offer free access to everyone interested. A link to this inaugural issue will go
out by e-mail to nearly 400,000 faculty members. We hope they forward it to
students and colleagues everywhere. Online publication also gives us the
freedom to publish quite substantial scholarly essays, something that would
be much more costly in print.
We invite people to submit essays for our next issue. Whether the journal is
published as an annual volume or twice a year will depend in part on the
number of quality submissions we receive. We will also maintain a continuing
relationship with the AAUP’s annual conference on the state of higher
education, itself founded in 2009. We are publishing four essays from the
2009 conference but expect to increase that number next time. This first
issue is devoted to essays solicited by the editor, with members of the
editorial board checking essays for historical errors. The next issue will be
conventionally refereed. Neither the editor nor the board members are ex
officio. All were appointed on the basis of their publishing history and
expertise.
We have done our best to gather a diverse array of essays. They range from
historical studies to analyses of contemporary conflicts, from accounts of
individual faculty experiences to institutional histories. Thus Phillip Deery
details a case from the McCarthy era, whereas Ellen Schrecker analyzes the
Ward Churchill case. Four essays deal with institutional crises—Jan H. Blits’s,
Jean Gregorek’s, Cary Nelson’s, and one jointly authored by Nancy D.
Campbell and Jane Koretz. Dan Colson breaks new ground in discussing
graduate student academic freedom, while Larry Gerber reviews the history
of the relationship between academic freedom and shared governance.
The AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom has been developed in consultation
and collaboration with Academe, the AAUP's magazine. The range of topics
we are covering is, of course, much narrower, and our article length is
typically longer. In the area of academic freedom, this new journal for the
first time gives the AAUP a forum for substantial scholarly essays. We will
also inevitably exchange submissions when one journal receives an essay
more appropriate for the other.
We welcome your responses and suggestions.
The journal's ISSN number is 21538492.
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. People who want to keep up with the field
thus face a difficult task. Moreover, there is no one place to track the
developing international discussion about academic freedom and its collateral
issues. Edited collections and special issues of journals have helped fill the
need for many years, but 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.
Publishing online gives us many advantages, the first being the ability to
offer free access to everyone interested. A link to this inaugural issue will go
out by e-mail to nearly 400,000 faculty members. We hope they forward it to
students and colleagues everywhere. Online publication also gives us the
freedom to publish quite substantial scholarly essays, something that would
be much more costly in print.
We invite people to submit essays for our next issue. Whether the journal is
published as an annual volume or twice a year will depend in part on the
number of quality submissions we receive. We will also maintain a continuing
relationship with the AAUP’s annual conference on the state of higher
education, itself founded in 2009. We are publishing four essays from the
2009 conference but expect to increase that number next time. This first
issue is devoted to essays solicited by the editor, with members of the
editorial board checking essays for historical errors. The next issue will be
conventionally refereed. Neither the editor nor the board members are ex
officio. All were appointed on the basis of their publishing history and
expertise.
We have done our best to gather a diverse array of essays. They range from
historical studies to analyses of contemporary conflicts, from accounts of
individual faculty experiences to institutional histories. Thus Phillip Deery
details a case from the McCarthy era, whereas Ellen Schrecker analyzes the
Ward Churchill case. Four essays deal with institutional crises—Jan H. Blits’s,
Jean Gregorek’s, Cary Nelson’s, and one jointly authored by Nancy D.
Campbell and Jane Koretz. Dan Colson breaks new ground in discussing
graduate student academic freedom, while Larry Gerber reviews the history
of the relationship between academic freedom and shared governance.
The AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom has been developed in consultation
and collaboration with Academe, the AAUP's magazine. The range of topics
we are covering is, of course, much narrower, and our article length is
typically longer. In the area of academic freedom, this new journal for the
first time gives the AAUP a forum for substantial scholarly essays. We will
also inevitably exchange submissions when one journal receives an essay
more appropriate for the other.
We welcome your responses and suggestions.
The journal's ISSN number is 21538492.
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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 |
