Reluctant Foot Soldiers: America's Undergraduates Rebuff Opponents of Academic Freedom.

Denvir, Daniel P.

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ERIC Number: EJ669916

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Reluctant Foot Soldiers: America's Undergraduates Rebuff Opponents of Academic Freedom.

Denvir, Daniel P.

Academe, v89 n3 p36-39 May-June 2003

Asserts that current campaigns to recruit undergraduates to "spy" on their professors--including Campus Watch and No Indoctrination--have not been enthusiastically received by today's college students; more significant, even conservative student are publicly either lukewarm or opposed to attempts to curtail academic freedom. (EV)

Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Conservatism, Higher Education, Liberalism, National Security, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue titled "Academic Freedom and National Security."