Contents

Fomenting Dissent on Campus
By Terri A. Hasseler
Can we expect students to dissent if we don't?

How We Can Resist Corporatization
By James G. Andrews
Higher education is a social responsibility, not a corporate one.

Life at Mission Creep U
By Greg Dubrow, Bryan Moseley, and Daniel Dustin
Learn to adapt to institutional change.

Nobel Prizewinner Kenneth Arrow on Economic Thought and Academic Freedom
Roger Bowen
On economists, education, and the AAUP.

Fighting Back: Peace Studies is Not Terrorism
By George Wolfe
Tweaking David Horowitz.

Fighting Back: A Fair Wage for Staff in Colorado
By Jeff Livesay
Working for the staff.

The Ethics of Writing Recommendation Letters
By Joe Schall
Don't overlook this important part of the job.

When Is a Mentor Like a Monk?
By Cristina González
Mentoring strategies inspired by the medieval church.

Who Will Teach the Nurses?
By Susan A. LaRocco
Nursing faculty numbers are way down.

Why and How to Be Interdisciplinary
By Anne Dalke, Paul Grobstein, and Elizabeth McCormack
Get chatting with your colleagues across the quad.

Cary Nelson Elected AAUP President
By Gwendolyn Bradley

AAUP Protests Exclusion of Foreign Scholars
By Wendi Maloney

Chapters and Conferences Support Capital Campaign
By Martin D. Snyder

Springer Assumes AAUP Counsel Position
By Gwendolyn Bradley

Supreme Court Rules on Solomon Amendment
By Ann Springer

Federal Panel Paper Blames Faculty for High Costs
By Gwendolyn Bradley

For-Profit Online Education Receives a Boon
By Gwendolyn Bradley

Patriot Act Renewed
By Gwendolyn Bradley

Congressional Hearing Held on Document Withdrawals
By Gwendolyn Bradley

Alternative-Coursework Legislation Defeated
By Gwendolyn Bradley

Law Enforcement Visits Professor
By Gwendolyn Bradley

Dictionary Society Endorses AAUP Policy
By B. Robert Kreiser

Government Relations: I've Seen the Future
By Mark F. Smith

From the Editor: Talk Back
Paula M. Krebs

From the General Secretary: Sarbanes-Oxley
By Roger W. Bowen

Higher Education for the Public Good: Emerging Voices from a National Movement
Reviewed by John Aubrey Douglass

Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation
Reviewed by Robert A. Sedler

My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
Reviewed by George D. Kuh

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