During the past year and a half the government relations people of the AAUP and the Pennsylvania Division–and numerous other higher education interested parties as well–have spent a great deal of their time on the hearings and deliberations held by a special committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, called the Select Committee on Academic Freedom in Higher Education. The committee was created in July 2005 by the House, pursuant to a resolution (HR 177) that called for an inquiry into the conditions of academic freedom in the state’s public institutions of higher education.
