The influence of movements promoting multiculturalism and political correctness on university campuses has become pervasive-affecting decisions on admissions and hiring, changes in the curriculum, and the implementation of codes governing speech. Yet these movements are not without their detractors: those who view recent developments as a threat to academic freedom. The contributors to The Imperiled Academy-nine prominent academics and specialists in history, government, philosophy, law, and public policy-assess the current state of American universities and their prospects for the future.
Biography
Howard Dickman is a Senior Staff Editor at Reader's Digest. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 1977 and has written numerous articles and reviews for magazines and scholarly journals. He is the author of Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policy (1987), and the co-editor of Liberty, Property, and the Foundations of the American Constitution (1989), Liberty, Property, and Government: Constitutional Interpretation before the New Deal (1989), and Liberty, Property, and the Future of Constitutional Development (1990).
