Includes index.
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
1. Introduction 1
2. Historical Overview, Part 1
From the Beginnings to World War II 13
Antecedents in Europe and Colonial America 14
The Emergence of the Research University 27
Control of Faculty Personnel Decisions
and Issues of Academic Freedom 34
World War I and the Interwar Years 45
3. Historical Overview, Part 2
World War II to the Present 67
World War II and the Growth of Sponsored Research 68
The "Red Scare" and the Loyalty Oath Controversies 70
The Explosive Expansion of Higher Education, Leading to the "Golden Age" of the 1960s 77
Protests and Rebellions 87
Retrenchment in the 1970s
and Subsequent Ups and Downs 98
The Real Estate "Bubble" Breaks
and Fiscal/Political Realities Take Hold (or Do They?) 109
The Impact of Experiments with Online Learning 112
The Pathways Initiative at CUNY 127
4. Faculty Roles Today and Tomorrow
Topical Issues 131
The Selection and Tenure of the President 133
The Faculty Appointment Process
Criteria and Decision-Making Authority 139
The Role of the Faculty in Giving Advice of All Kinds 142
The Role of Faculty in Staffing Decisions
and the Rise of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty (the New Majority) 151
Faculty Responsibility for Maintaining Academic Standards in Admissions, Curricular Content, and Student Performance 165
Control over New Teaching Methods
Online Learning 169
5. Overarching Challenges 177
Confronting Trade-offs and the Need for Upfront Consideration of Costs 177
Aligning Roles and Responsibilities 182
Coping with an Ever-Changing Academic Landscape 189
Clarifying Notions of "Academic Freedom" 201
Rethinking "Shared Governance" 205
Case Studies 213
Introduction to the Case Studies 213
The University of California 217
Princeton University 261
Macalester College 291
The City University of New York 315
INDEX 361.
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