Allen Fenichel & David Mandel, The Academic Corporation, Justice, Freedom, and the University. Introduction by Professor J. C. Weldon

The Academic Corporation, Justice, Freedom, and the University (1987)
Quatrième de couverture: The authors

Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du livre de MM. Allen Fenichel & David Mandel, The Academic Corporation, Justice, Freedom, and the University. Introduction by Professor J. C. Weldon. Montréal-New York : Black Rose Books, 162 pp., 1987, 190 pp. Une édition numérique réalisée par Marcelle Bergeron, bénévole, professeure retraitée de l'École polyvalente Dominique-Racine de Chicoutimi. [Autorisation accordée par l'auteur le 1er novembre 2006 de diffuser le texte de cette conférence dans Les Classiques des sciences sociales.]

THE ACADEMIC CORPORATION

Justice, Freedom, and the University

Allen Fenichel and David Mandel

Introduction by Professor J. C. Weldon

Even though he had been recommended by the Political Science Department Appointments Committee and was the only Canadian among the "preferred candidates", a young scholar's application for a tenure-track position at McGill University was denied.

“Perhaps the history is best read as a morality play, familiar enough in its classical themes but novel and even frightening in its details... Little is more appalling in the narrative than how easily the acquiescent closed their eyes, pretended Mandel's shattered career was an everyday accident of academic life, and treated a flat contradiction of academic law as contributing to integrity and stability for the long run”.

From the Introduction by J.C. Weldon

Dow Professor of Economics,

McGill University

Allen Fenichel, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, has been associate professor of economics at McGill University since 1964. He is a founding member and past president of the McGill Faculty Union. David Mandel has a doctorate from Columbia University and is currently substitute professor in political science at the University du Québec.