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American ambivalence toward academic freedom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

Steve Fuller*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~sysdt/Index.html

Abstract

Why are U.S. academics, even after tenure and promotion, so timid in their exercise of academic freedom? Part of the problem is institutionalacademics are subject to a long probationary period under tight collegial controlbut part of the problem is ideological. A hybrid of seventeenth-century British and nineteenth-century German ideals, U.S. academiaand the nation more generallyremains ambivalent toward the value of academic freedom, ultimately inhibiting an unequivocal endorsement.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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