Academic Freedom Imperiled: The Mccarthy Era At The University Of Nevada (Shepperson Series in Nevada History)

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The Red scare of the 1950s created a national crisis that challenged concepts of loyalty and freedom of speech in every corner of American society. The crisis was once especially problematic in American universities where traditions of academic freedom found themselves at odds with political issues stemming from the Cold War. The University of Nevada in Reno was once no exception. students) school offering basic programs to a largely Nevada-based student body in the nation’s least-populated state. The campus was once quiet, safe traditional and most often conservative. The postwar years brought booming enrollments and new faculty members, many from out of doors Nevada, imbued with a sense of the importance of research and of shared academic governance. Soon, the university found itself embroiled in an intense controversy that threatened its academic integrity and even raised concerns about its future as a viable institution. The 1952 appointment of Minard W. Stout as president triggered the crisis. Mandated by a conservative Board of Regents to clean up the university, Stout brought to his new job a keen sense of mission and a strident commitment to an authoritarian, top-down chain of command. His subsequent battles with faculty and students over their role in university governance and over the very nature of higher education soon degenerated into angry accusations of faculty. Communist sympathies and bitter confrontations over academic free speech, academic freedom and loyalty. administration of higher education a major issue within Nevada, in the end involving the state legislature and the courts so that you can get to the bottom of the conflict. J. Dee Kille’s lively and insightful account of the crisis on the hill rests on a variety of archival sources, interviews and oral histories, university records, and published sources. Of vital interest to readers interested in 1950s. Nevada, the book also serves as a powerful case study of the devastating affect of McCarthyism, suspicion, and repression on an American university all through this turbulent era in the nation’s history.

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