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Author Tiede, Hans-Joerg, author.

Title University reform : the founding of the American Association of University Professors / Hans-Joerg Tiede ; foreword by Michael Bérubé.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded to advance the professionalization of America's faculty. University Reform examines the social and intellectual circumstances that led to the organization's initial development, as well as its work to defend academic freedom. It explores the AAUP's subsequent response to World War I and the first Red Scare. It also describes the founders' efforts, especially those of Arthur O. Lovejoy and James McKeen Cattell, in securing a greater role for faculty in the government of colleges and universities"-- Provided by publisher.
"Academic freedom, the intellectual bedrock of American intellectual activities, was not always a shared value, but one that emerged from faculty collective action. This book provides a detailed history of the founding and early activities of the American Association of University Professors set into the broader societal and intellectual circumstances that affected its initial development. Key to the story, of course, is the influential work of Arthur O. Lovejoy at Johns Hopkins and John Dewey at Harvard in establishing this national association and very early professional trade union. The professionalization of the faculty, which accompanied the development of the American research university, identified academic freedom as a central element of professional autonomy. Public debates over academic freedom occurred within the broader debate of the balance of power in the American university. This debate was strongly influenced by the perspectives of the Progressive Era: the goal to democratize university governance was presented frequently in terms similar to the broader goal of democratizing American society. These developments were central to the establishment of the Association, and individual founders of the AAUP played an active part in many of them, inside and outside of academe"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject American Association of University Professors -- History.
American Association of University Professors.
History.
College teachers' unions -- United States -- History.
College teachers' unions.
United States.
Collective bargaining -- College teachers -- United States -- History.
Collective bargaining -- College teachers.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Bérubé, Michael, 1961- author of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Tiede, Hans-Joerg, 1971- University reform 9781421418261 (DLC) 2015006251 (OCoLC)907657566
ISBN 9781421418278 electronic book
1421418274 electronic book
9781421418261
1421418266