18.3.08

The rhetorics of free speech and tenure





Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education Book by Cary Nelson, Stephen Watt; 1999.

"…we believe we can preserve a viable system of education that supports at least the minimum freedom necessary to advance and adapt cultural knowledge to changing conditions. For this project we will need Ph.D.'s who have the time and resources to devote to continuing research. Alternative careers in industry or high school or community college teaching - none of these alternatives let research faculty in the humanities do the critical cultural work for which they have been trained…" (Nelson & Watt, 1999:13).

Untenured!






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