Free Inquiry At Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times

Posted by on November 9, 2009

Social Research is pleased to announce that Free Inquiry At Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part II is currently in press and will be shipping in two to three weeks time. The issue gathers together the proceedings from the conference of the same name held at the American Academy in Berlin, February 19-20, 2009.

Rapid globalization, international collaborations, massification, corporate partnerships, increasing number of franchises, regime change, and other conditions of duress are reshaping universities around the world. What are the benefits and what are the risks to academic freedom and free inquiry as universities navigate these trends? This special issue looks backward at the role of academic freedom and free inquiry in research universities and forward to what the future may have in store.

This is the follow-up to our Summer 2009 issue, Free Inquiry At Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part II, the published proceedings of the conference held at The New School for Social Research, October 29-31, 2008 (see http://socres.org/vol76/issue762.html).

Take advantage of our Free Inquiry prepublication sale by November 15, 2009 and receive a special rate of $15/issue or $25 for both (regular price $18/issue or $30 for both). To receive this special rate, please visit our order page (http://www.newschool.edu/centers/socres/order.html), and type “Prepublication Sale” into the comments field.