AAUP in the Media

"Idaho State's faculty should just forget about electing yet another senate next fall. It might be smarter to petition the AAUP to build an embassy on campus as a place to seek asylum.” Michael O’Donnell in the Idaho State Journal. (5/8)

AAUP Secretary-Treasurer conducted a financial analysis of California State University, Northridge and concluded that CSUN’s army of administrators and insufficient funding for instructors are to blame for cuts in class sections, student admission and faculty. (5/8)

In "University success depends on faculty talent" (Iowa State Daily) and  "UNI investigation should be taken seriously for all Regent universities," (Daily Iowan) the Iowa State University AAUP chapter tells readers why the events at UNI are important. Get more background on what's happening at UNI. (5/5)

In discussing a potential vote of no-confidence of Kent State president Lefton with the Beacon Journal, Sara Kilpatrick, executive director of the Ohio AAUP Conference, says, "“It is a nuclear option. Faculty generally take this action very seriously and use it only as a last resort.” (5/3)

"If your financial performance is better there's really no reason why the salaries for the faculty at Bowling Green should be at the bottom," AAUP president-elect Rudy Fichtenbaum tells the  Sentinel-Tribune. " If they are it's simply a matter of priorities, what is important at this university. And clearly thus far, at least, the university has said it's not the faculty and by saying that I think they're saying it's not the students." Also, read the stories in the Toledo Blade and WFIN. (5/2)