The Value of Values
…the survey results, even during my hearing. Over the next ten weeks, my situation deteriorated. The AAUP chapter chair privately assured the president I wouldn’t receive AAUP support, and she…
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A Report on the American Classroom 2024: Is Free Speech Just a Matter of Process?
…The Report’s conclusion is somewhat surprising. First, the AAUP has recently changed its 2006 policy against boycotts. In effect, greenlighting the anti-Zionist BDS boycott that several academic organizations want to…
Penn Will ‘Eviscerate Academic Freedom as We Know It’
…For example, Jeffrey Sachs called out the hypocrisy of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which has raised no objection to Wax being disciplined by a top college, while…
Freedom of Association Trumps Academic Freedom
…odds with one another. The latter undermines the former. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has rescinded its previous policy of supporting academic freedom when it conflicts with a…
The Trouble with Three-Letter Acronyms
…somewhere else.” Develop a plan for assessing the outcomes and consequences of all policies and programs. As I argued in my paper on academic assessment for the AAUP: We cannot…
Ending the Leftist Think Monopoly on Campus
…he was a senior professor. Faculty groups like the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) are mightily annoyed since their quasi-monopoly control over hiring and the curriculum is imperiled. While…
The AAUP Discredits Itself
…colleague abandoned his AAUP membership long ago, even before he stepped away from the classroom. I don’t mean to say that AAUP is simply a partisan or ideological organization. My…
Let’s Help Harvard Faculty Share in Its Governance
…AAUP Department of Organizing and Services, as advised by the AAUP Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance. The AAUP only requires half a dozen card-carrying AAUP members at Harvard…
Harvard’s Plagiarism Review Process is a Joke
…Professors (AAUP) published in its “Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities:” An agency should exist for the presentation of the views of the whole faculty … Faculty representatives should…
Gerber For Faculty Positions
…from alone in following his case closely. The AAUP, FIRE, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, and other bodies have documented it many times as well. (The AAUP, which…
WU: Taking DEI to Court
…academic freedom. A 2022 American Association of University Professors (AAUP) survey found that imposing DEI requirements for tenure was an increasingly popular practice, with 45.6 percent of large education institutions…
Eulogy for a Dream
…Expression Below are a few statements and declarations which informed the Madera Community College Academic Senate’s resolution: 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure [AAUP] 1940 Statement…
Taking David Horowitz Seriously
…exposed the utter hypocrisy of institutions, such as the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), that claim to protect academic freedom and free inquiry while actually doing the opposite: What…
University Professors Love ‘Social Justice’ and Critical Race Theory, but Hate Israel
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) earlier this year courageously took a stand against “threats to academic freedom.” The AAUP statement identifies the most serious threats to academic freedom…
Who Owns the Universities? Who Runs Them?
…of University Professors (AAUP) has had a long history of involvement in securing an important role for faculty in universities, calling for “shared governance,” accepting that the governing board typically…
Compelling Diversity and Punishing Dissent
…adherence as a component of hiring and tenure decisions. A recent report by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) found that “DEI criteria were found in tenure standards at…
Does In-Person Instruction Violate Academic Freedom?
…the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), establishes academic freedom as “the liberty of [a] scholar within the university to set forth his conclusions.” [Related: “The War Against Academic Freedom”]…
The Catechism of the Woke: A Cautionary Tale
…American Association of University Professors (AAUP). These principles helped establish American higher education as the envy of the modern world and can be found here. The AAUP linked academic freedom…
Georgetown Law Professor Fired for Telling the Truth
…Georgetown University contractually promises its faculty, which implement the “core principles” of academic freedom laid down by “the American Association of University Professors” (AAUP). Such academic freedom has been contractually…
A “Reverse Canceling” and its Critics
…that was regarded as influential enough to be republished on the American Association of University Professors’ (AAUP) Academe Blog. “Many,” Palumbo-Liu writes, if not all, of the speakers whose ideologies…
Field Notes on the Politicization of the American University
…as the AAUP that teachers must refrain from irrelevant politicking while engaged in their course work are not merely ignored but have been turned on their heads. Dialing the clock…
NAS Critiques AAUP Response to New Title IX Regulations
…agreement with AAUP’s response to the new regulations. In particular, we agree with AAUP’s concerns regarding academic freedom, free speech, mandatory reporting, the standard of proof and emergency removal from…
The Assault on Free Thought
…by their own institutions and least likely to get support from organizations such as the AAUP, which swagger around proclaiming their deep commitment to academic freedom. Are Shoutdowns Free Speech?…
Rampant Hypocrisy at UMass
…the Chancellor’s defense of the BDS event on May 4th included mention of the AAUP’s 1940 Statement of Principles, which not only explained the importance of academic freedom but also…
The Sad State of Higher Education
…American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has summed up the consensus among faculty: “The sad truth is that US higher education is in decline.” A poll in 2012 showed that…
A Tide Flowing Toward Free Speech on Campus
…Turning Point USA. The incident was caught on video, and the public reaction against Lawton was strong. The university eventually barred Lawton from teaching. The AAUP, naturally, has censured the…
Defending a Debased Version of the Liberal Arts
…free person to know to participate in civic life. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) issued a joint online statement…
Did the Right ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech?
…Free Speech and Academic Freedom,” in the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom; and her extended conversation with Bill Moyers “Academic Freedom in the Age of Trump,” and her upcoming AAUP…
The Campus Left’s Mass Attack on Amy Wax and Middle Class Values
…article “racist and classist.” Labeled as “white supremacists,” few—including The Chronicle of Higher Education and the AAUP—attempted to defend their academic freedom. Disagreement Must Be Racist Certainly, Wax and Alexander…
Protecting Academic Freedom Through All the Campus Smoke
…The AAUP declared this a “unilateral suspension” and said it was “at odds with normative academic procedures.” Theodore Kupfer, writing in National Review, headlined an account of the affair, “No,…