The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University
A Education, Nonfiction book. Ellen Schercker is successful in conveying a clear-eyed view of the history of academic freedom, its evolution throughout...
Schrecker, the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, examines both the key fronts in the present battles over higher ed, and their historical parallels in previous eras – offering a deeply-researched chronicle of the challenges to academic freedom, set against the rapidly changing structure of the academy itself. The Lost Soul of...
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- ISBN: 9781595584007 / 0
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Ellen Schrecker is a historian and what she writes is a history of academic freedom issues at universities through the twentieth century. The surprising thing to me is that by and large, there are very few instances, and most in the McCarthy era of breaches of academic freedom. Even here it seems that Schrecker is working with a far... Ellen Schercker is successful in conveying a clear-eyed view of the history of academic freedom, its evolution throughout time from within, and the assaults and pressures upon it from without. I did appreciate the fact that her prose is deliberately distant from romanticism about the virtues of academic freedom, and careful about avoiding...
