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TABLE OF CONTENTS

An Overview (, 95 KB, 2pp)

  Academic Freedom in the 21st Century (, 3.5 MB, 16pp)
William G Tierney and Vicente M. Lechuga

The Continuing Campus Divide (, 3 MB, 14pp)
Terry Jones

Reconnecting with Our Postmodern Students (, 3.4 MB, 8pp)
Jean Roth Hawk

  Questioning the Lecture Format (, 198 KB, 10pp)
Barbara J. Limbach & Wendy L. Waugh

Teaching from Both Sides of the Desk (, 1.9 MB, 12pp)
Nancy Hanna Nicastro

Chalk Dust & the Hands of Time (, 3.1 MB, 12pp)
Chad Hanson

Toward More Productive Higher Education Systems (, 3.3 MB, 10pp)
Ronald Fischbach

Special Focus: Higher Education and the National Security State

Introduction (, 71 KB, 2pp)

Interview with Noam Chomsky (, 180 KB, 10pp)

The New McCarthyism in Academe (, 3.2 MB, 16pp)
Ellen Schrecker

Academic Freedom in America after 9/11 (, 3.2 MB, 13pp)
John K. Wilson

Teaching Chemistry in the United States, Post-9/11 (, 3.5 MB, 6pp)
Mark A. Benvenuto and Matthew J. Mio

I'm Not Sure What George Bush Has To Do with Hitler (, 156 KB, 7pp)
Alex Pogorelskin

Strategizing Control of the Academy (, 2.8 MB, 16pp)
Sara Roy

A University's Dilemma in the Age of National Security (, 276 MB, 15pp)
Greg McColm and Sherman Dorn

The Role of Higher Education in a Security State (, 3.1 MB, 8pp)
Michael Perelman

International Students and U.S. Border Security (, 274 KB, 12pp)
David A. Urias and Carol Camp Yeakey

Reviews

A Lifetime of Learning (, 105 KB, 2pp)
Reviews of The Wisdom of Pratice:Essays on Teaching, Learning, and Learning to Teach by Lee S. Shulman
Edited by Suzanne M. Wilson
and
Teaching as Community Property: Essays on Higher Education
By Lee S. Shulman
Edited by Pat Hutchings
Reviewed by Mathew L. Ouellett

We Shall Not Be Moved (, 122 KB, 2pp)
A Review of Betrayal—How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics
By Linda Chavez and Daniel Gray
Reviewed by Tom Shipka

Opening the Doors of Academe (, 120 KB, 2pp)
A Review of Leveling the Playing Field: Justice, Politics, and College Admissions
By Robert K. Fullinwider and Judith Lichtenberg
Reviewed by John Berteaux

Where Has All the Money Gone? (, 124 KB, 2pp)
A Review of Public Funding of Higher Education:Changing Contexts and New Rationales
Edited by Edward P. St.John and Michael D. Parsons
Reviewed by Carol Everly Floyd

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