Disrupting the university - Egner, Heike;Uhlenwinkel, Anke
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At universities, professors are increasingly being dismissed or demoted from high positions for allegedly disruptive behaviors. But when is a professor disruptive? In the media, you read about unpopular statements, false attitudes, bullying or abuse of power. But that is only part of the story. This book looks at the structures behind the cases and shows that the dismissals repeatedly affect certain groups of people. Instead of performance orientation, a 'right to certification' is gaining ground. Instead of academic freedom, there is increasing pressure to conduct research only in line with…mehr

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At universities, professors are increasingly being dismissed or demoted from high positions for allegedly disruptive behaviors. But when is a professor disruptive? In the media, you read about unpopular statements, false attitudes, bullying or abuse of power. But that is only part of the story. This book looks at the structures behind the cases and shows that the dismissals repeatedly affect certain groups of people. Instead of performance orientation, a 'right to certification' is gaining ground. Instead of academic freedom, there is increasing pressure to conduct research only in line with certain political ideologies. Based on their empirical surveys, Heike Egner and Anke Uhlenwinkel present worrying findings and remind us of the once seemingly unshakeable principles of free research and free teaching at our universities.Among other things, the authors have examined the questions of which groups of people were primarily affected by the dismissals, what accusations were made against them, what the respective course of proceedings was, and what role the media played. The findings unearthed in the process are disturbing, for the facts suggest that not only has there been a sharp increase in the number of professors who have been prematurely removed from university service against their will, but that qualitatively questionable developments have also been observed. Those affected seem to belong particularly often to certain sociological groups whose members are presumed to have been able to pursue a career in academia only through extraordinary personal effort and talent, to feel committed to the ethos of achievement, and to be particularly attached to the traditional, Humboldtian understanding of academia.
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Heike Egner, born in Heidelberg (Germany) in 1963, is a geographer, researcher and mediator. She studied journalism, political science and geography in Mainz, where she also completed her doctorate and habilitation in geography. Egner has held visiting professorships in Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Munich, Vienna and Innsbruck. Starting in 2010 she was a university professor of geography and regional research at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) until her unexpected dismissal in 2018. Anke Uhlenwinkel, born in Bremen (Germany) in 1963, is a university professor of geography and economics education at the University of Salzburg (Austria) since 2021. She studied Geography, English, Politics and Education at the University of Göttingen. She completed her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Bremen. From 2008, she held a professorship of geography education at the University of Potsdam (Germany), but was not granted tenure in 2013 after an irregular internal procedure that was not codified in the Higher Education Act. Zachary Gallant, author of "Nazis All The Way Down: The Myth of the Moral Modern Germany", has reported as a journalist on politics and corruption in the USA and the Balkans. He lives in Germany since 2012, where he carried out and organized numerous projects on refugee aid, intercultural understanding and climate justice with the support of the European Commission and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.