You can't teach that! : the battle over university classrooms / Keith E. Whittington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whittington, Keith E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic freedom--United States.

Academic freedom.

Freedom of speech--United States.

Freedom of speech.

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

United States.

Physical Description:

196 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Who controls what is taught in American universities - professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can be promoted and discussed in university classrooms. Professors at public universities have long assumed that their freedom to teach is unassailable and that there were firm constitutional protections shielding them from political interventions. Those assumptions might always have been more hopeful than sound. A battle over the control of the university classroom is now brewing, and the courts will be called upon to establish clearer guidelines as to what - if any - limits legislatures might have in dictating what is taught in public universities. In this path-breaking book, Keith Whittington argues that the First Amendment imposes meaningful limits on how government officials can restrict the ideas discussed on university campuses. In clear and accessible prose, he illuminates the legal status of academic freedom in the United States and shows how existing constitutional doctrine can be deployed to protect unbridled free inquiry." -- from Amazon website (https://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Teach-That-University/dp/1509564535)

Contents:

Introduction

The culture war and the universities

Academic freedom in the United States

The era of the loyalty oaths

The First Amendment comes to campus

The professor as a government employee

Teaching in the government school

Compelling students to believe

Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781509564521

1509564527

9781509564538

1509564535

OCLC:

1416124691