Government relations

April 2, 2005: The North Carolina Conference of the American Association of University Professors calls on state legislators to oppose Senate Bill 1139 because the Academic Bill of Rights proposes to remove academic expertise as the standard for decisions about teaching and research at universities.

The Faculty Senate of The University of Akron opposes Senate Bill 24 and urges the Ohio General Assembly to reject it.

The Academic Senate of Youngstown State University vigorously opposes Senate Bill 24, both in spirit and in substance.

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.