University reform : the founding of the American Association of University Professors / Hans-Joerg Tiede ; foreword by Michael Bérubé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiede, Hans-Joerg, author.

Bérubé, Michael, 1961- author of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Association of University Professors--History.

American Association of University Professors.

College teachers' unions--United States--History.

College teachers' unions.

Collective bargaining--College teachers--United States--History.

Collective bargaining.

Collective bargaining--College teachers.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Academic freedom, the intellectual bedrock of American intellectual activities, was not always a shared value, but one that emerged from faculty collective action. This book provides a detailed history of the founding and early activities of the American Association of University Professors set into the broader societal and intellectual circumstances that affected its initial development. Key to the story, of course, is the influential work of Arthur O. Lovejoy at Johns Hopkins and John Dewey at Harvard in establishing this national association and very early professional trade union. The professionalization of the faculty, which accompanied the development of the American research university, identified academic freedom as a central element of professional autonomy. Public debates over academic freedom occurred within the broader debate of the balance of power in the American university. This debate was strongly influenced by the perspectives of the Progressive Era: the goal to democratize university governance was presented frequently in terms similar to the broader goal of democratizing American society. These developments were central to the establishment of the Association, and individual founders of the AAUP played an active part in many of them, inside and outside of academe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 No Hired Man: Faculty and the Development of Higher Education 8

2 University Reform: Governance and Academic Freedom 22

3 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 45

4 The Committee of Nine 59

5 The Founding of the AAUP 75

6 First Investigations and the Committee of Fifteen 93

7 The 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure 114

8 The Goal of Investigations and the Early Development of Academic Due Process 131

9 Academic Freedom in the Age of Repression 147

10 Academic Unrest 172

11 The Growth and Development of the Association 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421418261

1421418266

OCLC:

907657566

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