Student governance: toward effectiveness and the ideal.
College students have been engaged in various aspects of campus governance since nearly the beginning of the academy. This governance was formalized greatly by the academic freedom movement of 40 years ago, and the current system of shared governance has not adapted well to the changing nature of the...

Evolving strategy: creationists promote "Academic Freedom" bills.
AS MILLIONS OF U.S. children return to public school classrooms for another year of instruction, you can almost hear religious right leaders licking their chops. Public schools have been in the religious right's crosshairs for years. Despite all of the talk about vouchers, private education, and home...

Academic freedom at the Dawn of a New Century: How Terrorism, Governments, and Culture Wars Impact Free Speech.
Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a New Century: How Terrorism, Governments, and Culture Wars Impact Free Speech, edited by Evan Gerstmann and Matthew J. Streb. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. 241 pp. ISBN 0804754446. J. DOUGLAS TOMA, University of Georgia...

Curricular activism and academic freedom: representations of Arabs and Muslims in print and internet media.
IN THIS ARTICLE, I WILL ARGUE that movements to restrict academic freedom--a term I will clarify momentarily--are pernicious independently of their political affiliations, but most concretely identified and usefully contested when we investigate their strategic character, both tacit and explicit. This article will investigate and assess that strategic character....

New creationist strategy claims to champion 'academic freedom'.
Advocates of teaching creationism in public school science classes are back with a new strategy: legislation that claims to support "academic freedom." The tactic has surfaced recently in Louisiana and Florida. In Louisiana, a bill has been introduced that would ostensibly encourage teachers to examine all sides...

Academic Freedom At The Dawn Of A New Century.
Academic Freedom At The Dawn Of A New Century Evan Gerstmann & Matthew J. Streb (editors) Stanford University Press 1450 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1124 0804754446, $24.95, www.sup.org What had the horrific acts of September 11th, 2001...

Patriotic correctness; academic freedom and its enemies.
9781594511936 Patriotic correctness; academic freedom and its enemies. Wilson, John K. Paradigm Publishers 2008 274 pages $81.00 Hardcover Cultural politics & the promise of democracy LC72 The author details...

The new code words.
Byline: The Register-Guard Stuffed somewhere in the hind end of a Trojan horse cleverly named Academic Freedom is a resurgent movement to undermine the teaching of evolutionary biology. It is the quintessential irony that nothing has evolved more conspicuously than the strategies creationists keep devising to challenge...

Desiring Arabs author objects to review.
To the Editor: It is surprising to me that a professor at a respectable institution would write an ad hominem and irresponsible review of another scholar's book like the one Vernon Rosario wrote of my book Desiring Arabs in the May-June issue of The Gay and Lesbian...