What's New with Academe?
Our December newsletter includes two online-only articles that supplement the fall 2022 issue of Academe, which centered on revolutionizing higher education budget and finance. Also included are two book reviews from our upcoming winter 2023 issue, which will be released in early February, as well as a selection of recent posts from Academe Blog and an article from our archives. Follow the links below or visit https://www.aaup.org/academe to read more.
FEATURES
Data Dashboards, Higher Education Finance, and Student Outcomes
Easy access to data is a powerful tool against austerity.
By Matthew D. Hendricks
Protecting Academic Freedom with Transparent Funding
Challenging harmful donor influence.
By Avital N. Nathman and Jake Lowe
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BOOK REVIEWS
Lessons from the Teachers’ Strikes
Stephen Pimpare reviews Strike for the Common Good: Fighting for the Future of Public Education, ed. Rebecca Kolins Givan and Amy Schrager Lang.
Academic Freedom, Incivility, and Resistance
Nalini Iyer reviews Civility, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Faculty on the Margins, ed. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt and Kakali Bhattacharya.
FROM THE BLOG
Journal of Academic Freedom Explores History and Disinformation
Posted by the AAUP
State University Budgets in the Neoliberal Age
By Raphael Sassower
Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Teach
By Alan Singer
The Material Conditions of Academic Labor
By Hank Reichman
Who Rules the Curriculum at Florida's Universities?
By Timothy Kaufman-Osborn
Rankings and the Real World: Incentivizing a Fictional University
By Talia Schaffer, Seth Kahn, Rachel Sanger Buurma, and Carolyn Betensky
Do Professors at Public Universities Speak for the State?
By Michael Schwalbe
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Human Rights, Academic Freedom, and Offshore Academics
By Andrew Ross