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Comment on “Worldliness and Freedom in the Academy”

Gardner, Gabriel Comment on “Worldliness and Freedom in the Academy”., 2023 [Newspaper/magazine article]

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A brief examination of the strengths and weaknesses in the essay “Worldliness and Freedom in the Academy” by Sam Popowich; published in the Spring 2023 issue of the AAUP's magazine: Academe.

Item type:	Newspaper/magazine article
Keywords:	Intellectual freedom, academic libraries, proletarianization, wages, job satisfaction, woke capitalism
Subjects:	A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AZ. None of these, but in this section. D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries. E. Publishing and legal issues. > EE. Intellectual freedom.
Depositing user:	Gabriel Gardner
Date deposited:	15 Sep 2023 20:09
Last modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:09
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44642

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