…book even ends with a “Plan for University Reform,” accompanied by the plaintiff note, “Written in 2010, before the AAUP eviscerated Penn State’s academic freedom policy.” Horowitz never holds out…
…Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the National Association of Scholars (NAS) have urged that they all be shut down. In April, NAS issued a report on Confucian Institutes in…
…AAUP and college presidents went on wrangling, with numerous summits and unsatisfactory attempts to reach For the next 25 years, the AAUP and college presidents went on wrangling, with numerous…
…unpredictably, are consistent with those of speech protection acts elsewhere, and they are not necessarily wrong. They are just late and unevenly applied. Consider, for example, the AAUP’s Academe Blog,…
…part, the AAUP pursues its vision of higher education as best governed by the collective will of the faculty, by which it means the progressive faculty. Related: AAUP Takes a…
…defender of the protests, ex-Professor Melissa (“muscle”) Click was back in the news last week. The AAUP produced a report faulting the University of Missouri for its slipshod procedure in…
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has just dipped its oar in the dank water of Title IX. The AAUP’s draft of its new document, The History, Uses, and…
…welfare and Murry’s job is apparently in jeopardy, too. That in the case of Naberhaus the target was a tenured professor – someone who according to AAUP guidelines and standard…
…senior program officer at AAUP, with a call for proposals to present at AAUP’s 2016 conference. They are inviting “reflection on racial, social, and labor justice in higher education.” No…
…AAUP event by my friend John K. Wilson, who has regularly asked me to AAUP events that I might enrich the conversation with some views that would probably otherwise go…
…from the American Association of University Professors. A hundred years after the organization’s founding, the AAUP’s leaders are worried that people don’t understand what higher education is for and why…
…might expect to take a consistent position on these questions, it’s the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), its members being prospective targets of such requests and thus at the…
…and its free exposition.” However, to quote an earlier AAUP statement, higher education must uphold its end of the bargain by preventing “the freedom which it claims in the name…
…at accountability. The AAUP made this shift explicit: “Post-tenure review ought to be aimed not at accountability, but at faculty development.” For the AAUP, review was to serve as job-training…
…out by the AAUP 99 years ago in its Statement of Principles, the idea was explicitly that scholars should be free from outside interference when they were engaged in genuine…
…oppose boycotts. Readers may judge NAS president Peter Wood‘s attack on the AAUP for themselves. But, regardless of whether Wood is right that the AAUP is changing for the worse,…
…AAUP departs from its usual defense of the faculty majority to formally oppose them. If the measure is adopted, the American Studies group would be the second academic organization–following the…
…century ago the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued its founding Statement of Principles in an attempt to crystallize the idea of academic freedom. The document grew out of…
…whose extracurricular interests tended toward music, or theater, or the fine arts, even though those activities also consume significant amounts of time. Indeed, on the same AAUP page in which…
…long after, the AAUP issued a letter in response, warning against the threat to academic freedom that the survey poses. The letter is a prime example of the difficulty conservatives,…
…the AAUP. Virtually the only public defenders of the settlement were an intern at ThinkProgress, Kumar Ramanathan, and an attorney for SUNY general counsel’s office, both of whom interpreted the…
…AAUP’s 1940 Statement on Academic Freedom noted, faculty members “should remember that the public may judge their profession and their institution by their utterances. Hence they should at all times…
…are often more conservative. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cary Nelson served as president of the AAUP from 2006 to 2012. Stephen H. Balch: Good luck to Steven Hayward! I hope he brings some…
…and that “it lacks influence.” He quoted former AAUP president Cary Nelson saying “the NAS is composed of old men playing a broken record,” and Princeton’s Stanley Katz saying “they…
…would have been better served by following the guidance of the AAUP–which, despite its usually tenacious defense of the academic status quo, made clear that boycotting Israeli academics (much less…
…Israel. Barghouti has penned a book on the concept, which even the status quo-oriented AAUP opposes, while Butler’s hostility to Israel has led her to make such bizarre claims as…
…process concerns raised by the AAUP likewise went unanswered. While she ignored civil liberties groups like FIRE and even groups like AAUP, Ali did find time to talk about her…
…close to celebrating, describing universities lacking the standard as “holdout schools,” even as she notes concerns from FIRE and the AAUP), Brashear doesn’t reveal that accused students can’t have an…
…real intentions. The weak adjudications of the AAUP have been supplanted entirely by lawsuits and courts for some time, and nothing suggests a revival of the AAUP’s authority. If such authority had…
…to Inside Higher Ed, even representatives of the normally defend-the-status-quo AAUP were basically sympathetic to Leuchter’s response. Seeking greater clarity, more than two dozen current and retired University of California…