January-February 2001

January-February 2001

Volume 87, Number 1

Contents

Features

Theologians at Risk? Ex Corde and Catholic Colleges
By Richard P. McBrien
If theology professors at Catholic institutions have to get authorization from bishops in order to teach, academic freedom will be lost.

Ivory Tower or Holy Mountain? Faith and Academic Freedom
By Nicholas Wolterstorff
Religiously affiliated institutions aren't alone in attaching qualifications to academic freedom: secular colleges and universities also set limits.

Literature and Tolerance at the University of St. Thomas
By Michael Allen Mikolajcak
A Catholic institution responds to public outrage over a book assigned by its English department.

Uneasy Partners? Religion and Academics
By Storm Bailey
Religious commitments can and do serve academic goals.

Orthodox Judaism and the Liberal Arts
By Shalom Carmy
Yeshiva University's undergraduate curriculum integrates religion and serious thinking about the liberal arts.

Faithful and Free: A Call for Academic Freedom
By Mary A. Burgan
Do religiously affiliated colleges have special problems with faculty autonomy?

Beyond the Course Pack: Putting Copyrighted Material Online
By Cary Nelson
Many publishers welcome Web sites that post excerpts from copyrighted books.

Faith and Faculty Autonomy at Calvin College
By George N. Monsma, Jr.
Respect for faculty governance helps Calvin advance its academic and religious missions.

Stolen Content: Avoiding Trouble on the Web
By Jane C. Ginsburg
The Internet is fraught with peril for professors and universities that want to avoid liability for copyright infringement.

AAUP at Work

Nota Bene

Columns

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