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383 Index AASCU. See American Association of State Colleges and Universities AAUP. See American Association of University Professors (AAUP) abstracted empiricism, 363n52 academia. See academic institutions; academic professionals; civic life; higher education; politics; science academic freedom: ideas and, 32; lessons, 256–57; Lundberg on, 26, 27; public intellectual tradition and, 56; “Report of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure,” 20–21, 23–24, 26, 31, 32; tyranny and, 22–23, 32, 55–57, 59; using, 256 academic institutions, 21, 46; AR/PS/EO and, 60; civic life and, 22, 332, 333; cultural norms and, xv; democracy advanced by, 9, 22; economics and, 8; mission of, 8; teaching styles of, 137. See also land-grant system academic professionals, 96: academic calling for, 21–22; active, 37, 322; AR/PS/EO tradition and, 38, 23–24, 46, 57, 58–60; civic engagement of, 56, 57; civic forms of work, 351–52; civic life off-campus of, x–xi, xvi–xvii, 3, 7, 10, 11–14, 37–38, 47–48, 50–51; and civic work of, 19–20, 24, 33, 37, 47, 317–18, 333, 349–51; commercialized education and, 8–9; conflicts and tensions and, 96, 354; at Cornell, 3, 68, 142, 148, 177, 202, 224; defined, 15, 21–23, 320; democracy and expertise of, 64, 66, 151, 318–19, 331; “detached attachment” and, 56, 57, 58; Educational Finance Research Consortium and, 333; evolution of, 65–66, 69; extension’s unique, 46; identity of, 11, 27–28, 31, 326, 327–28, 331–32; as insiders, 326–28, 332; knowledge and, 22, 27, 28, 31, 53–54; landgrant system and, 39–40, 316; as listeners, 321–22; in New York State, 68; normative anti-tradition and, 61–62, 349; as organic intellectuals, 57, 59; politics and, 31, 57; public intellectual tradition and, 32, 52–55; purposive, 28, 37; “Report of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure,” and, 20–21; role of, 15, 21–22, 47, 49, 56–57, 61, 96–97; social function of, 21–22, 24; in technical fields, 213, 317; types of, 34, 37, 46. See also interviewed academic professionals by specific name (listed under practitioner profiles); academic institutions; Cooperative Extension System; outreach; public intellectual tradition access, xiv, 9–10, 134, 152, 172, 182, 252, 261 Access Versus Excellence, xiii 384 I N D E X action research, 37, 105, 323; defined, 38; at Essex Street project, 325, 345–47; Horrigan and, 119; participation, xviii, 37, 114–16, 119, 128, 130–31, 347; personal experience value in, xviii, 114, 119 action researcher/public scholar/educational organizer (AR/PS/EO) tradition, 19, 28, 33, 37–42, 325; academic professionals and the, 23–24, 38, 46, 57, 58–60; appeal of the, 59–60; audiences, 38; civic life and, 38; land-grant tradition and, 39–40, 364n60; is problematic, 60; theory and, 59, 60; types of, 40 activism, 32, 38, 57 advocacy groups, 102–3, 115, 216–17, 219, 339–40 agents of change, xiv, xvii, 51, 353 agribusiness, 170–71, 176, 267, 268 agricultural experiment stations, 41; Connecticut, 299; Cornell, 137–38, 186, 201; danger from, 81; established, 39; Geneva, 78, 95, 203–4, 210; land-grant, 39, 81; New York State, 78, 95 Agricultural Extension System of the United States, The (Smith and Wilson), 42–46 agriculture: a college of, 40–41; commercialization, 81–82, 90; community supported, 192; compost in, 157, 166, 228, 296, 305, 307, 329; crop rotation and, 169, 300, 305, 307–9; disciplines in, 39; diversity in, 178; Filipino, 168, 294; food system and, 14; GMOs and, 14, 175–76, 205; health and, 192; industrial, 181; New York, 40, 68–69, 178, 201, 296, 305; nutrition and, 293; organic, 76, 81–83, 87, 172, 211, 220, 298, 300, 305; pioneer species in, 174; problems, 211, 288, 352–53; sustainable, 185–86, 205, 209, 288, 294–96, 338, 353; weed science and, 165, 168–71, 176, 215, 299, 317. See also berry crops; fruit; land-grant system; Public Seed Initiative (PSI); seed industry; vegetables Agroecology, 186 “Ag schools,” 139 Alfred State College, 67 amaranth, 293–94 American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), 350, 371n1 American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 20–21, 23–24, 26, 31, 32. See also academic freedom American Democracy Project, 350 American Horticultural Society, 151 American Journal of Sociology, 28 American Sociological Society, 24, 28 “antitradition,” 19–20, 46–51; appeal of, 61; IPM, 203; Lippmann and, 48, 61; is problematic, 61–62 apple, 207; business management, 210–11, 288...
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