2010 Conference on the State of Higher Education Opening Plenary Address

In his opening address to AAUP’s 2010 Conference on the State of Higher Education, Cary Nelson recapitulates the major themes of his critically acclaimed book, No University Is an Island. He discusses how academic freedom, tenure and faculty governance are threatened today not only by efforts to impose ideological conformity, but also by the current transfer of corporate managerial practices to academic institutions, and by the proliferation of contingent faculty.

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