While we may tend to romanticize universities as bastions of free thought and intellectual rigor, Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira's new book, The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, demonstrates their subjection to the same ideological underpinnings as the general body politic.Truthout | Book Review
Academia Under the Influence
Eleanor J Bader
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These issues are very hard to study and adjudicate objectively. Everyone thinks the curriculum should make room for their own particular areas of interest, and permit the airing of their own favorite theories and perspectives. But life and time are short, and value judgments about scholarly quality therefore must be made.
More and more those decision are being taken out of the hands of academics and given to manager to save academics time for teaching and research. What effects this has had on academia?
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