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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”)