The Chronicle, the Professoriate, and the AAUP

Autor/in	Warren, Cat
Titel	The Chronicle, the Professoriate, and the AAUP
Quelle	In: Academe, 94 (2008) 3, S.29-32 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2946
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; News Reporting; College Faculty; Academic Freedom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; News report; Reportage; Fakultät; Akademische Freiheit
Abstract	A tipping point with the "Chronicle of Higher Education" and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been reached. A tipping point, by definition, is the effect of many events, often small and seemingly insignificant. At the "Chronicle," the tipping point finally came on September 21, 2007, when the journal published a short and seemingly simple story by Robin Wilson, on the AAUP's Freedom in the Classroom statement. In the AAUP report, Wilson portrayed it as an organization that is ailing, aged, and balding, with a schizophrenic mission, in desperate need of mandatory retirement. In this article, the author states her opinion on how the "Chronicle" should have reported this news with some semblance of neutrality. She laments that, through Wilson's article, the "Chronicle" has created a strangely hostile media environment for faculty and higher education in general. She also comments on the fact that educators have tended to ignore, downgrade, or disparage the critical importance of media coverage of higher education. As such, she asks everyone in the academe to make an effort to do some shoring up of their own. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Association of University Professors. 1012 Fourteenth Street NW Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 800-424-2973; Tel: 202-737-5900; Fax: 202-737-5526; e-mail: academe@aaup.org; Web site: http://www.aaup.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10