Restoring free speech and liberty on campus / Donald Alexander Downs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The return of the proprietary university : the new politics of free speech and civil liberty -- 2. The rise of ideologies against free speech and liberty -- 3. Columbia's sexual misconduct policy : civil liberty versus solidarity -- 4. Berkeley and the rise of the anti-free speech movement -- 5. Undue process at Penn -- 6. Renewal : the rise of the free speech movement at Wisconsin -- 7. Abolition in the Wisconsin faculty senate and its aftermath -- 8. Civil liberty and political strategy on campus.

"This book addresses a major problem in contemporary American higher education: deprivations of free speech, due process, and other basic civil liberties in the name of favored political causes. Drawing on personal experience as well as research, Downs presents four case studies that illustrate the difference that conscientious political resistance and mobilization of faculty and students can make. Such movements have brought about unexpected success in renewing the principles of free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty at universities where they have been active, while their absence at some universities has caused a steady decline of the importance of these principles."--BOOK JACKET.