Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Take Away Tenure, and Professors Become Sheep
Alice Dreger says shecan see clearly that universities in which the majority of the faculty feel unsafe in terms of job security become places where no one feels safe to do anything that might risk upsetting someone.
Archived Webinar: A Debate on Academic Freedom
On September 27, as part of Social Science Space’s series on academic freedom, three of the contributors to that series – Daniel Nehring, Dylan Kerrigan, and Joanna Williams – participated in an hour-long webinar to discuss some of the issues at the heart of this issue.
The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production
As part of our series on academic freedom, Dylan Kerrigan discusses the wider implications of the financialisation of academic knowledge production by considering academic book publishing. He asks if the success of academic books is best measured by economic or non-economic criteria, by its impact on the business sector or its veracity, by ideological myth-making or evidence.
Thoughts on Academic Freedom (and Our Series)
Below are some of the comments and articles that have addressed the issues of academic freedom as written about in the series appearing at Social Science Space.
The Soviet System, Neoliberalism and British Universities
Craig Brandist compares aspects of British higher education to the old Soviet Union, with a similar tendency towards stagnation and strategies that workers adopt to absorb managerial pressure.
The Transformation of UK Higher Education Since 1968
Since the heyday of the student movement in the late 1960s policy decisions in the United Kingdom have mostly pushed universities into neoliberal boxes that ill-fit the needs of students and the society at large, argues Hugo Radice.
Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech Must be Protected and Respected
This is an extract from a speech made by Valerie Amos, director of the SOAS, for the Menzies Oration on Higher Education at the University of Melbourne on September 14.
Emotionalisation, Neoliberalism and Academic Freedom in US
The boundaries of academic freedom in the US have shifted, argues Sam Binkley. What is at stake now is not only the freedom to think, speak and generate knowledge, but the freedom, even the requirement that one becomes a certain kind of person in order to think and speak in certain kinds of ways.
