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David Hollinger Appointed Committee A Chair
By Omonike Akinkuowo
In June, David Hollinger, professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, became chair of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Hollinger, who has been a member of the committee for two years, was appointed chair by AAUP president Jane Buck.
"I am delighted that David will assume the chair of Committee A," says Buck. "He will be an excellent leader in this time of increased assaults upon academic freedom."
Hollinger, a renowned scholar, earned a PhD from Berkeley's history department in 1970 and recently became the chair of that department. His work explores, among other things, the history of pragmatism and science in America, the rise of social science, the role of public intellectuals, the state of national history in an era of internationalism, and the status of the historical enterprise in a postmodernist and deconstructionist era. Hollinger has published six books and over thirty articles and reviews. His books include Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism, and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture.
"I agreed to accept the responsibilities of chair of Committee A in the context of today's increasing pressures on academic freedom and our duty to resist them," Hollinger says.
The committee, which is the AAUP's oldest, is charged with developing principles and standards of academic freedom, tenure, and due process; working for the acceptance of these principles in the higher education community; and approving reports of investigations into allegations of violations of academic freedom or due process. Prior to Hollinger's assuming the chair, historian Joan Wallach Scott of the Institute for Advanced Study chaired Committee A for six years. She will now become a consultant to the committee.
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