…are teachers hired without tenure, paid a small fraction of those on tenure-track positions, (typically $2700 per course, with minimal benefits). All three college faculty unions–the AAUP, American Federation of…
…of University Professors (AAUP) issued a “Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure.” As the AAUP saw it, academic freedom was a right and a privilege. It afforded scholars…
…the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education” and also the American Association of University Professors representative at Rutgers (the AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National…
…want to see” drew 10 percent of boys and 16 percent of girls. But the AAUP inflates the numbers with a dubious catch-all category: “Having someone make unwelcome sexual comments,…
…could Lefton’s statement be considered anything but common sense. Yet it earned a rebuke from AAUP president Cary Nelson, who mused, “Calling out a political slogan during a question period…
…Students played no more than a whispering role in such disputes. Arthur O. Lovejoy, one of the founders of the AAUP (whose experience at Stanford University had much to do…
Our own Charlotte Allen has a wonderful piece in the Weekly Standard on campus events marking the anniversary of 9/11. While some of the events are rational enough and a…
…colleges and universities should require that all students complete at least one U.S. history class. Perhaps the AAUP will deem such outside commentary to constitute a threat to academic freedom….
…an alarm about this, and has been joined by a number of other organizations, including the National Association of Scholars and most recently the AAUP. The AAUP has sent two letters…
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) made its name as a respectable association dedicated to promoting the interests of the academy and protecting the academic freedom of professors. Now,…
The AAUP has now completed the final version of what NAS’ Peter Wood aptly termed a “firewall,” designed to protect academics from outside criticism, especially from conservatives and supporters of…
…is admirable: professors should not be hired, fired, or disciplined on the basis of their political beliefs. Yet the AAUP’s report is basically unchanged from the organization’s draft document, which…
… Cary Nelson, head of the AAUP and English professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, had a lengthy response: “Although the Koch Foundation’s objectives are written so as to sound…
…rather than “professor” but their roles in the classroom are the same. According to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), adjuncts at U.S. colleges and universities now comprise “more than…
…The decision, she screeched, “is an insult to the academic judgment of the faculty,” and “an attempt to close off and narrow public debate.” Completing the anti-Israel trio was AAUP activist Ellen Schrecker, who has made a career…
…choice, as all their classes will be accredited. The AAUP applauds the move. May 10, 2018. Reason.com releases its “Adam Smith, Prof.” video featuring Camplin, explaining the advantages of contracting directly with professors. The video…
…AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported under the headline, “Faculty Groups Gather to Craft a United Stand on Higher-Education…
…AHA’s peculiar statement is a broader call to excuse academics at public institutions from state open records laws altogether. The AAUP has urged the university to resist the Open Records…
…AAUP’s Cary Nelson managed to persuade Zedler to introduce the bill as a way to discredit Nelson’s conservative critics. Among higher-ed issues, only gun rights have rivaled evolution in receiving…
…side of the story.” The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which normally regards free speech inside college classrooms as sacrosanct, has reacted skittishly. “Given our modern culture and the…
…prioritizes seeking the truth. The AAUP document, in effect, intends to establish what NAS head Peter Wood perceptively labeled a “firewall” to protect the academic status quo. The AAUP purports…
…triggered a strong opposition to violence that had not been expressed when Piven was recommending it. Cary Nelson, president of the AAUP, said Piven was the victim of “what nearly…
…off the tenure track, even as overall student enrollment has ballooned. In 1975, according to a 2009 AAUP study, some 57 percent of all university faculty either had tenure or…
…college and university teaching staffs 20 years ago; today they account for nearly 70 percent (the AAUP’s numbers could be exaggerated, but not by much). Adjunct pay, which almost never…
…college and university teaching staffs 20 years ago; today they account for nearly 70 percent (the AAUP’s numbers could be exaggerated, but not by much). Adjunct pay, which almost never…
…“learning communities” and Arizona’s ethnic studies curriculum, along with an entry on “liberation bibliography.” In this light comes a piece from an AAUP stalwart, Yeshiva University professor Ellen Schrecker, who…
…lucky in this respect, in that I benefited from a CUNY administration and Board of Trustees committed to following the rules). AAUP head Cary Nelson’s linkage of tenure and academic…
…has not received much attention from the McCarthyism-fixated AAUP): the mandatory posting of student evaluations of professors. Since college students are notorious for their preference for instructors with colorful personalities…
…championed by Illinois professor and AAUP head Cary Nelson, a figure not heretofore known for his defense of intellectual pluralism on campus. “It’s part of intellectual life to advocate for…
…AAUP, recounts conditions at Principia College, a school in Illinois with a no-tenure policy. “You could cut the fear with a knife,” he says. “Faculty members are guarded, they’re not…