Fall 2023 | Vol. 109, No. 4
The fall issue of Academe focuses on state-level political attacks on higher education. Articles explore the features and objectives of the right-wing “campaign to control higher education”; how faculty members in various states are responding to legislation targeting public colleges and universities; the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; and the historical and global contexts for the wave of repressive measures currently threatening the freedom to teach and learn.
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Subnational Authoritarianism and the Campaign to Control Higher Education
Understanding state-level attacks on colleges and universities.
By Jennifer Ruth
Dispatches from States Under Legislative Attack
Faculty responses to the assault on higher education.
Curbing Dog-Whistle Politics
The truth about the anti-DEI playbook.
By Lynn Pasquerella
Political Repression and the AAUP from 1915 to the Present
How can we most effectively defend the imperiled academy?
By Ellen Schrecker
Here and Abroad, Universities Face an Autocratic Playbook
Attacks on higher education are a global threat.
By John Aubrey Douglass
Fighting for the Freedom to Learn at New College of Florida (online only)
What's happening to a small Sunshine State college casts a menacing shadow.
By Juliana Paré-Blagoev
Harnessing Demographic Shifts for Racial Justice in Higher Education (online only)
Illinois must recommit to its minority- and Hispanic-serving institutions.
By Isaura Pulido
BOOK REVIEWS
The Trouble with Scholar-Activism
Martha McCaughey reviews What Is Academic Freedom? by Daniel Gordon.
Diversity, Debate, and Activism at a Quaker College
Henry Reichman reviews the second edition of Jews, Palestinians, and Friends by Richie Zweigenhaft.
Schooling and the Promise of Prosperity
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer reviews The Education Myth by Jon Shelton.
CHAPTER PROFILE
Faculty Alliance of Miami AAUP-AFT Chapter
COLUMNS
From the Editor: Fighting for Higher Education
Legal Watch: Stopping the "Stop WOKE" Act
From the President: Rising to the Challenge of Our Time
NOTA BENE
2023 Summer Institute in Burlington
AAUP Stands for Equity after Court Ruling on Admissions
Hot Union Summer Wins
Maryland Community Colleges Form AAUP-AFT Unions
Final 2022–23 Faculty Compensation Survey Results
Changes in the Office of the Executive Director
New Staff Appointments
