No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom

by Cary Nelson

Book Overview

The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education's independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited with paltry salaries for full-time work, politics and profit rather than intellectual freedom govern decision-making, and professors are being monitored...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814758592
• ISBN13: 9780814758595
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"