Nicholas De Genova
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680894
- eISBN:
- 9781452948799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680894.003.0013
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter provides an account of the controversy involving Columbia University Professor Nicholas De Genova’s exercise with respect to free speech and the principle of academic freedom. It ...
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This chapter provides an account of the controversy involving Columbia University Professor Nicholas De Genova’s exercise with respect to free speech and the principle of academic freedom. It examines the suppression of dissent among academic intellectuals within—and against—the imperial university. Professor De Genova argues that the news media can never provide a genuine forum or platform for the substantive articulation or clarification of any complex ethical, intellectual, or political position, particularly any that radically disrupts or seeks to subvert the dominant order of society. The chapter also provides a historical outline of colonial conquest, genocide, slavery, and imperial warfare as forming the bedrock of U.S. nation-state formation. It then examines the important role of universities to encourage, nurture, and protect critical thinking and political dissent.Less
This chapter provides an account of the controversy involving Columbia University Professor Nicholas De Genova’s exercise with respect to free speech and the principle of academic freedom. It examines the suppression of dissent among academic intellectuals within—and against—the imperial university. Professor De Genova argues that the news media can never provide a genuine forum or platform for the substantive articulation or clarification of any complex ethical, intellectual, or political position, particularly any that radically disrupts or seeks to subvert the dominant order of society. The chapter also provides a historical outline of colonial conquest, genocide, slavery, and imperial warfare as forming the bedrock of U.S. nation-state formation. It then examines the important role of universities to encourage, nurture, and protect critical thinking and political dissent.
Vijay Prashad
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680894
- eISBN:
- 9781452948799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680894.003.0014
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter focuses on the concept of campus democracy and academic freedom. It argues that the question of affordability of higher education is significant to any discussion of academic freedom. A ...
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This chapter focuses on the concept of campus democracy and academic freedom. It argues that the question of affordability of higher education is significant to any discussion of academic freedom. A survey from 2000 of 850 U.S. residents found that less than a tenth of adults who enjoy a family income of between $30,000 and $75,000 believe that college education is affordable. Those who make less than $30,000 fear that their children won’t be able to go to college. In addition, the survey found a majority worried more about college tuition than about the academic freedom of the faculty. The freedom to think is encroached upon by the encumbrances of money.Less
This chapter focuses on the concept of campus democracy and academic freedom. It argues that the question of affordability of higher education is significant to any discussion of academic freedom. A survey from 2000 of 850 U.S. residents found that less than a tenth of adults who enjoy a family income of between $30,000 and $75,000 believe that college education is affordable. Those who make less than $30,000 fear that their children won’t be able to go to college. In addition, the survey found a majority worried more about college tuition than about the academic freedom of the faculty. The freedom to think is encroached upon by the encumbrances of money.
