Establishing Academic Freedom : Politics, Principles, and the Development of Core Values
ISBN: 9781137009548
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Education;

The is this the book-length work addressing the development of academic freedom and the procedures designed to protect it from the 1915 founding of the AAUP and the AAC to their endorsement of the key document in the history of professorial rights and responsibilities, the 1940 Statement of Principles of Academic Freedom and Tenure.


Timothy Reese Cain is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His historical research examining academic freedom, faculty unionization and related issues has recently appeared in the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom, History of Education, History of Education Quarterly, Labor History, Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, and Teachers College Record.
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