Campus politics : what everyone needs to know®, Jonathan Zimmerman

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Campus politics : what everyone needs to know®, Jonathan Zimmerman

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what everyone needs to know®

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Jonathan Zimmerman

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• Campus politics : what everyone needs to know®

Publication

• New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2016

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• ©2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents

Introduction: Making sense of campus politics -- 1. The politics of professors and students -- Are American professors mostly liberal? -- Why are professors mostly liberal? -- What are the politics of American college students? -- What happened to student protest? -- 2. The question of "political correctness" -- What is political correctness? -- Why did the early PC controversies focus on the humanities? -- So how did we get from the humanities controversy to "PC"? -- Does political correctness even exist? -- Has the PC debate gone away? -- 3. Diversity and its discontents -- Have American universities become more diverse? -- Why did universities become more diverse? -- Why did universities establish speech codes? -- How have universities tried to improve the racial climate on campus? -- Have universities' efforts to improve the racial climate worked? -- 4. Professorial speech and the fate of academic freedom -- What is academic freedom? -- How has academic freedom fared over the past century? -- Did academic freedom come under fire after the 9/11 attacks? -- Did professors' opinions after 9/11 cost them their jobs? -- Is there a "New McCarthyism" on American campuses? -- 5. Student bodies : policing sex on college campuses -- What is in loco parentis? -- What happened to in loco parentis? -- What happened to sex at college after in loco parentis ended? -- When did sexual assault on campus become a problem? -- What is Title IX? -- Are the rights of the accused sufficiently protected? -- So have we entered a new era of in loco parentis? -- 6. How did that make your feel? psychology and campus politics -- When did the psychology of college students become a public issue? -- What are microaggressions? -- How did microaggressions become a focus of campus concern? -- What are trigger warnings? -- Are today's students "coddled?" -- Conclusion: Campus politics at the administrative university

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23 cm.

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ix, 146 pages

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9780190627409

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2016010262

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u985230