The AAUP Strikes Out . . . Again
The AAUP recently produced a new journal devoted to exploring the state of academic freedom on today’s college campuses. As customary with anything from the AAUP in recent years, the…
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What Is The AAUP Up To?
…Once upon a time the AAUP was the nation’s leading supporter of academic freedom. In recent decades, however, its prestige has slipped. A couple of years ago the Chronicle of…
Saving U Mass From Its Faculty
…of class time doing so. The “activist” duo appears unaware of how their colleagues’ behavior violated the AAUP’s 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure. That foundational…
Decoding Teacher Training
…and course foci accordingly.” Imagine the (appropriate) outrage from the AAUP and other defenders of the higher education establishment if an Education program at a major state university demanded that…
What Speech Is Protected?
…back. “The right of faculty members at public colleges and universities to speak freely without fear of retribution is endangered as never before,” the AAUP said in a newsletter called…
Is Academic Freedom In Trouble?
…from political pressure. But that’s a partial and skewed definition. Academic freedom is, in fact, a form of professionalism grounded in what the AAUP calls “duties correlative with rights.” Chief…
Do What With The Adjuncts?
…the AAUP has now gone on record claiming that these two processes produce faculty members of “comparable . . . qualifications.” If so, why isn’t the AAUP calling for the…
Celebrating FIRE
…letter went out, and the president conceded defeat. After one week, he rescinded his dissolution order. In an era when the AAUP has essentially confined its mission of protecting academic…
Treating Adjuncts Like Peons
…campus AAUP chapter I had invited to sign it. When I realized that my children are likely to have college instructors who are either overworked, distracted tenure-stream professors or undersupported,…
Not Your Grandparents’ AAUP
AAUP president Cary Nelson recently e-mailed his membership about an important new venture for the academic union. Proclaiming “this is not your grandparents’ AAUP,” Nelson celebrated the work of the…
Even The AAUP Opposes The Yale Decision
Cary Nelson’s statement: “We do not negotiate with terrorists. We just accede to their anticipated demands.” That is effectively the new policy position at Yale University Press, which has eliminated…
The Ominous Rise Of The Adjuncts
By Maurice Black & Erin O’Connor Review of John C. Cross and Edie Goldenberg’s Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education. (Cambridge: MIT Press): 2009. According to the AAUP, 48…
Does Tenure Mean You Can’t Be Laid Off?
…law to—an expansive definition of tenure rights that has been promoted for years by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The AAUP, as a professors’ union, takes an aggressive…
Victory At Virginia Tech
…provost has asked the college to rework its proposed guidelines.” A search of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) turned up no protest of the coercive Virginia Tech plan….
Sometimes Juries Get it Wrong
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) took its customary bystander role in the Ward Churchill case, as it regularly does when academic integrity is the issue and the evidence…
Three Groupthink Conferences—No Dissenters Please
…an address from AAUP president Cary Nelson, author of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical and an aggressive defender of the status quo on contemporary campuses. It is, of course, perfectly…
Loyalty Oath At Virginia Tech
…If they don’t go along, it will cost them their jobs or their promotions.” Now let’s hear from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and faculty around the country….
Quiz Time
A new book of essays, Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University (SUNY, 2009), celebrates the current president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The book’s cover…
Stanley Fish And The Storm In Ottawa: Seven Professors Say What They Think
…World War with the founding of the AAUP. When Arthur O. Lovejoy was dismissed from his position at Stanford University for simply defending a colleague’s right to criticize the university,…
Knocking Out Speech Codes, Keeping Everything Else?
…sharp disagreements in the AAUP and NAS conceptions of academic freedom that are no doubt familiar to any reader of the AAUP’s “Freedom in the Classroom” statement, or of the…
Moderating The AAUP And MLA?
…suspicious. Inside Higher Ed reported “When the AAUP ventured into foreign policy, its votes could prove surprising for association critic David Horowitz, as Cary Nelson, the AAUP president noted.” The…
Change At The AAUP?
Peter Wood and Ashley Thorne write on the upcoming AAUP Presidential Election at the NAS site. Cary Nelson, the current President, is facing Tom Guild, a professor emeritus of legal…
What Trustees Must Do
…and remain personally free to enter politics, though this may not be particularly wise when their fields have political relevance. Early AAUP statements certainly took great pains to stress the…
Fishing For Purpose
…the AAUP for issuing a partisan statement on “Freedom in the Classroom” that validates the “accusation that the academy’s leftward tilt spills over into the classroom.” Time and again, Fish…
The AAUP Straw-Man Statement
If anyone hasn’t realized that the new AAUP Statement on academic freedom is a sham, then there are two excellent means to inform yourself today. First, Erin O’Connor’s new piece…
AAUP To Critics: What, Us Biased?
…the AAUP statement’s omissions and deflections tell us much about the AAUP’s attempt to secure the autonomy of professors in the classroom. Academic freedom – as the AAUP itself has…
The Hidden Impact Of Political Correctness
…protected by AAUP academic speech guidelines. Stuart was also extremely liberal on all racial issues. Nevertheless, to condense a long story, an anonymous letter from irritated black students complained of…
Professors Make Fools Of Themselves
…“Ward Churchill, sober research scholar, victim”) In response to the increasing contention that “academic freedom protects professorial speech in any circumstance Bergman cites the 1940 AAUP Statement of Principles, and…
Ward Churchill And The Diversity Agenda
…universities.” The AAUP and the Colorado faculty protesters justified their positions by citing academic freedom. Yet the doctrine, which arose in a period when professors were regularly fired for their…
Only A Conservative Idiot Would Think I’m Biased
…is perfect, but whatever the flaws in this one, the results closely match another poll, based on a completely different methodology, commissioned last year by the AAUP. The accusation that…