The American Association of University Professors has come a long way from its origins. And yet that is a necessary journey. It is one that illuminates a path way from beginnings and charts the cultural shifts and contestations that serves as a mirror for great shifts and contestations within the larger culture. More specifically, its serves as a mirror for the reflections of one group of academic influencers and their construction of narratives of the role of the university--and its faculty--within or against the larger society into which they are obliged to contribute. But what is the nature of that obligation? Certainly for some time it has increasingly shifted from "mere" knowledge production to the more politically engaged role of the public intellectual. But that has brought politics into the academy and with it the power relations, contests, battles and confrontations that politics generates. One cannot transform the essence of the university and its faculty to the role of public intellectual without expecting substantial push back from those other (powerful) societal forces who or which the academic intellectual pokes form time to time.
And thus this issue of the AAUP's Journal, Academe, which according to its press relase:
explores the complexities of higher education’s obligations to the outside world. In articles that emphasize the imperative to engage with—and develop policies responsive to—social concerns, contributors look beyond traditional ways of framing the relationship between campuses and communities.
It is worth reflecting on the transformation of the university into another form of non-governmental or quasi governmental organization a principal object of which appears to be political engagement as an institution and as a factor in the evaluation of the quality of faculty contribution. Links to the articles in the Spring 2022 (Vol 108 No 2) follows (including the quite interesting actions memorialized in the "nota bene" section).
Spring 2022 | Vol. 108, No. 2
The spring issue of Academe explores the complexities of higher education’s obligations to the outside world. In articles that emphasize the imperative to engage with—and develop policies responsive to—social concerns, contributors look beyond traditional ways of framing the relationship between campuses and communities.
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FEATURES
Confronting the Wealth Transfer from Tribal Nations That Established Land-Grant Universities
Steps toward atonement.
By Stephen M. Gavazzi and John N. Low
How Higher Education Abets Corporate Crime
The social costs of corporate partnerships.
By Michael Schwalbe
Academic Freedom and Departmental Speech
Who speaks for departments, and what can they say?
By Brian Soucek
What Do We Know about Campus Policies on Children in the Workplace?
An underexamined aspect of "family-friendly" policies.
By Heather K. Olson Beal, Lauren E. Brewer, Chrissy Cross, and Shelby J. Gull
Academic Motherhood and the Unrecognized Labors of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Women of Color
What the invisibility of the most marginalized reveals.
By Atia Sattar
BOOK REVIEWS
An Essential Guide for the Battles Ahead
Matthew Boedy reviews Understanding Academic Freedom by Henry Reichman.
STEMming the Tide of Inequity
Umme Al-wazedi reviews Building Gender Equity in the Academy by Mary L. Churchill and David J. Chard.
What Happened? Higher Education in the Long Sixties
Jennifer Ruth reviews The Long Promise by Ellen Schrecker.
CHAPTER PROFILE
The Faculty Association of Monmouth University
COLUMNS
From the Editor: Campuses and Communities
Legal Watch: AAUP Joins Legal Fight against Government Harassment of Asian American Scientists
From the President: Recognizing the Danger
NOTA BENE
Special Committee Report on the UNC System
Report on Dismissal of Shakespeare Scholar at Linfield University
AAUP Censures University System of Georgia
Statement on Antisemitism and Racism Bills
2021–22 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey Data
AAUP President Calls for Transparency in Florida
Closed Georgia Chancellor Search Earns AAUP Rebuke
AAUP President Condemns Threat to End Tenure in Texas
Opposition to Educational Gag Orders Grows
Solidarity with HBCU Communities
Plymouth State Ratifies New Contract
Emerson LA Faculty Reach Contract Agreement
AAUP BUSINESS
Developments Relating to Association Censure
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