Top Clips for week ending 2.18.22
Mentions:
- 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
- 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
- Search for UF’s new president comes amid discussion of decreased transparency laws – Independent Florida Alligator (Irene Mulvey quoted) (Tweet!)
- 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
- Northwestern Graduate Workers present NU’s financial report, discuss alternative allocations – The Daily Northwestern
- UNH faculty demand fair contract as negotiations stall – The New Hampshire
- Faculty calls for Rider University president’s resignation – Central Jersey News
- After AAUP Resolution, Rider Trustees Respond In Support of President – Town Topics
- Op-Ed: NC State University Should Do More to Protect Campus Community – IndyWeek (co-authored by NC State AAUP chapter)
- OU-AAUP holds ‘Ask Day’ in support of instructional faculty – The Post
- Miami U hires law firm to address union – The Miami Student
- 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’s efforts to cancel professor tenure echoes the 1950s – Washington Post
- 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
- Independent review argues Whitman College’s budget cuts weren’t necessary – The Wenatchee World
Mentions:
- Revolt of the Super Employees – The Baffler
- 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
- 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”)