Closing the Marketplace: Restriction, Repression, and Retrenchment in U.S. Higher Education

• In Event: Just Research/ers: Resisting Censorship and Mis-Education/Advancing Human Freedom Collectively

Abstract

US universities once prided themselves with the notion that they were the marketplace
of ideas… even unpopular ideas. Through decades of public disinvestment, neoliberal policy
schemes, corporate over-reach, overtly political leadership and racial backlash, ideas that
challenge rightist ideology are now considered “woke,” “anti-American,” and indoctrination.
This paper examines the way forces are arrayed against academic freedom and the free
exploration and exchange of ideas.

Author

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Presenting Author