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…
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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…
The Trouble With Tenure
…so than many professionals in private industry,” the AAUP’s General Secretary Roger Bowen wrote in response to the Commission. Advisors approve dissertations, committees rank job applicants, students fill out teaching…