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Zealotry and academic freedom : a legal and historical perspective

Title: Zealotry and academic freedom : a legal and historical perspective / Neil Hamilton.
Author: Hamilton, Neil W.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©1995.

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xviii, 402 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Of the Similarities in the Seven Waves -- 4. Protection for Freedom of Expression for the Individual Scholar Employed in Higher Education - Professional Academic Freedom. Correlative Duties of the Individual Faculty Member in the 1915 Statement. Correlative Duties of the Faculty as a Collegial Body in the 1915 Statement. The 1940 AAUP Statement -- 5. Protection for the Core Academic Affairs of Higher Education from Interference by the State - Constitutional Academic Freedom -- 6. Protection for Freedom of Speech of Professors as Employees in the Public and Private Workplace. Post-1968 Exception: Some Constitutional Protection for Freedom of Speech in the Public Workplace. Application of the Connick Test -- 7. The Prudential Doctrine of Academic Abstention in Judicial Review of Academic Decisions. The Rationale for the Doctrine of Academic Abstention. The Scope of Judicial Review as a Function of the Type of Issue Presented. Lower Court Decisions.

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Six Waves of Zealotry from 1870-1970. Religious Fundamentalism of Administrators and Faculty in the Nineteenth Century. Unfettered Capitalism of Trustees and Regents at the End of the Nineteenth Century. Patriotism of World War I. Anticommunism Prior to World War II. McCarthyism in the Late 1940s and the Early 1950s. Student Activism in the Mid- to Late 1960s -- 2. Fundamentalism of the Radical Academic Left in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s. Ideology. Coercion of Competent Academic Inquiry by Tactics of Public Accusation, Social Ostracism, Investigation, Tribunals, Threats to Employment and Disruption of Speeches, Classes, and Administrative Functions. Results. Faculty and Administrative Response -- 3. Similarities in the Waves of Zealotry. Similarities between McCarthyism and the Current Fundamentalism. Similarities between Student Activism of the 1960s and the Current Fundamentalism.

ISBN

1560002050
9781560002055

LCCN

95000819

OCLC

ocm31936250
31936250
SCSB-2076929

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Princeton University Library