Exhuming McCarthy (MEET ME AT THE BOOK BURNING)
As the AAUP recently noted in its statement Targeted Online Harassment of Faculty, current efforts by private groups to monitor faculty conduct are raising academic freedom concerns. Almost fifteen years ago, an AAUP committee noted that such groups, parading under the banner of patriotism or acting...
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| Published in: | Academe 2017-09, Vol.103 (5), p.15-19 |
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| Format: | Magazinearticle |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | As the AAUP recently noted in its statement Targeted Online Harassment of Faculty, current efforts by private groups to monitor faculty conduct are raising academic freedom concerns. Almost fifteen years ago, an AAUP committee noted that such groups, parading under the banner of patriotism or acting to further a specific cause, have been monitoring academic activities and have denounced professorial departures from what these groups view as acceptable. The committee singled out Campus Watch for its attacks on professors of Middle Eastern studies and found precursors in the 1960s activities of the John Birch Society and in the 1980s efforts of the Accuracy in Academia movement. In many cases, including ones today, controversies over faculty activities have led to threats of physical violence against individual faculty members or the institution--threats that have included, in the case of women faculty, sexual assault. When Indiana State University professor Scott Chisholm burned a US flag in his classroom in 1967, the Terre Haute city council, the American Legion. |
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| ISSN: | 0190-2946 2162-5247 |