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The Danger Zone: Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties

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This paper examines the way "corresponding rights and duties" surrounding academic freedom were negotiated between professional associations and organizations of university managers and trustees. The subject is approached through an analysis of the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) major documents on academic freedom. In general terms it is argued that American academics, as intellectuals dependent on their employing institutions, have consistently sacrificed individuals and substantive principles in order to gain compliance for procedural safeguards from university officials for the profession as a whole. Restitution or reinstatement were not serious issues: the goal of the AAUP was a uniform personnel policy recognizing tenure. Even this goal was difficult to achieve. To win its acceptance, professors effectively traded civil liberties for job security.

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  • Sheila Slaughter, 1980. "The Danger Zone: Academic Freedom and Civil Liberties," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 448(1), pages 46-61, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:448:y:1980:i:1:p:46-61
    DOI: 10.1177/000271628044800106
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