Making the University Safe for Intellectual Life in the 21st Century

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Making the University Safe for Intellectual Life in the 21st Century

In connection with Warwick’s Festival of Social Science next week, Steve Fuller has started a blog called ‘Making the University Safe for Intellectual Life in the 21st Century’. Fuller: "I will be posting entries during the week and perhaps afterward. Your comments and responses are welcomed, since we are having a lively discussion here about the future of the university as an institution. I’m sure many of you are having similar discussions as well." - Welcome to our new blog sister in arms! You can see Fuller's first entry here: blogs.warwick.ac.uk/swfuller/

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The aims of this blog are to:

1. enable and encourage every citizen to learn about the idea of universities as a public good, essential for democratic action, and to contest and challenge the increasing dominance of a corporate 'academic capitalist' knowledge regime over the classic public good university. The blog supports the idea and practice of academic freedom, free inquiry and higher education as both public goods and essential elements of an open and democratic society.
2. be an information and exchange resource for science and education journalists, and other principal actors in the global knowledge economy, including a public increasingly becoming aware of conflicting goals and values governing the world's universities.
3. generate a national/ European/ international forum for the discussion of topics including academic freedom, university governance, managerialism, research leadership, the conditions for research-based teaching in higher education, triple-helix and mode 2 research, university politics, university types, and for the organisation of various meetings to discuss these issues, calls for papers, etc.

University Politics - universities as a public good

Thursday, June 11, 2009