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Top Clips for week ending 2.18.22
  • Tenure Under Attack – Insight Into Diversity
  • How to Sink Anti-CRT Bills – Chronicle of Higher Education (Tweet!)
  • AAUP Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Asian American Civil Rights – Diverse Issues in Higher Ed (Tweet!)
  • South Carolina’s efforts to cancel professor tenure echoes the 1950s – Washington Post 
  • Sonny Perdue likely to be Georgia’s next university system chief – Washington Post 
  • Sonny Perdue Is Sole Finalist to Lead Georgia’s Public Universities – New York Times
California:
  • Cal State chancellor resigns amid mounting pressure after USA Today investigation – USA Today
  • CSU Chancellor resigns amid scrutiny of sexual misconduct case – Los Angeles Times 
Florida: 
  • Search for UF’s new president comes amid discussion of decreased transparency laws – Independent Florida Alligator (Irene Mulvey quoted) (Tweet!)
Georgia: 
  • Politics Prevail in Search for Georgia Chancellor - Inside Higher Ed
  • Georgia’s system poised to appoint former Trump official Sonny Perdue next chancellor – Higher Ed Dive
  • Regents to name pick to run Georgia’s 26 public universities – AP/Atlanta Journal Constitution 
  • Georgia regents name Sonny Purdue finalist to lead University System – AP/Atlanta Journal Constitution
  • Board of Regents to select chancellor of university system – WFXG Fox 54 News Now 
  • Critics fume as Sonny Perdue closes in on Georgia’s university chancellor job – Georgia Public Broadcasting
  • A Trump Cabinet Secretary Is Poised to Take Over Georgia’s Public-College System – Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Oversight group isn’t reviewing Georgia regents’ choice of Sonny Perdue – Atlanta Journal Constitution
  • Ex-Georgia governor Sonny Perdue slated to be chancellor of University System – The George – Anne (quotes AAUP tweets)
  • Bookman: Regents pledged to find qualified new chancellor; they fished for Sonny Perdue – Georgia Recorder
Illinois:
  • Northwestern Graduate Workers present NU’s financial report, discuss alternative allocations – The Daily Northwestern
New Hampshire: 
  • UNH faculty demand fair contract as negotiations stall – The New Hampshire
New Jersey:
  • Faculty calls for Rider University president’s resignation – Central Jersey News
  • After AAUP Resolution, Rider Trustees Respond In Support of President – Town Topics
North Carolina:
  • Op-Ed: NC State University Should Do More to Protect Campus Community – IndyWeek (co-authored by NC State AAUP chapter)
Ohio:
  • OU-AAUP holds ‘Ask Day’ in support of instructional faculty – The Post
  • Miami U hires law firm to address union – The Miami Student 
Pennsylvania: 
  • DelVal U faculty vote no confidence in board of trustees – Bucks County Herald
  • As undergrad population surges, Chatham U poised to reintroduce tenure – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
South Carolina:
  • South Carolina’s efforts to cancel professor tenure echoes the 1950s – Washington Post 
Texas: 
  • UT Austin Council Approves Academic Freedom Statement on CRT – Inside Higher Ed (Tweet!)
  • UT Faculty Council passes resolution supporting freedom to teach critical race theory – Austin American-Statesman (Tweet!)
  • UT Faculty members demand answers after Dan Patrick says Liberty Institute intended to fight critical race theory – The Texas Tribune
  • Texas professor blasts faculty as they pass resolution promoting critical race theory – Fox News
Washington:
  • Independent review argues Whitman College’s budget cuts weren’t necessary – The Wenatchee World

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Mentions: 
  • Revolt of the Super Employees – The Baffler
“Meanwhile the vast majority of the actual teaching at most universities is performed by non-tenure-track faculty--some 73 percent of all faculty positions, according to the American Association of University Professors. Many adjuncts, like victims of outsourcing throughout the economy, are condemned to barely scrape together a living on short-term contracts and feast-or-famine workloads: only ever too much or not enough. Classroom instruction, apparently, is no longer the contemporary university’s core competence.”

  • Academic Groups Send Letters in Support of Professor Michael Phillips, Demand Reinstatement to Collin College – The Black Chronicle
  • Heather May (AAUP member) to Run for Waltham State Representative – Waltham Patch/Yahoo News
  • Dealing with dangerous ideas – Illinois Times (discusses 1963 censure of U of Illinois)
  • Faculty Freedom of Speech – Where do we draw the line? – National Review 
  • The Nazi in the Classroom – History News Network
“And then we have the matter of academic freedom.  The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) strongly criticized CW Post because Sittler had not been granted a hearing before the college cut ties with him.  The fact that Sittler had agreed in advance to resign if his Nazi background became a problem was considered irrelevant.  To the AAUP, the college had violated his “due process” rights. The AAUP viewed this as abridging the principle of academic freedom.”
  • Placing Limits on Faculty Speech – James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal (mentions AAUP statement on Ciccariello-Maher suspension and controversy around PSU professor Bruce Gilley’s “Case for Colonialism”)





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