2013 News

According to a statement by the Rutgers AAUP-AFT chapter, increasing "tuition by 3.5 percent and fees by another 2.5 percent adds insult to injury for our students already struggling with mounting student debt and our faculty and staff struggling to maintain a decent standard of living."

"Citing AAUP policy statements on freedom of expression, Kreiser said that it is 'essential that faculty members have the academic freedom to express their professional opinions without fear of reprisal.'”  Read the rest of the article and the AAUP's letter to learn more.

"The 4,000 adjunct faculty teaching in Colorado's community colleges are 70 percent of the total faculty. We teach 85 percent of all classes offered, while earning wages below poverty level, and working without health care, sick leave and opportunities for advancement," Front Range Community College AAUP Chapter president Caprice Lawless tells readers.

The AAUP's Robert Kreiser discusses “ratcheting up standards” for tenure with Inside Higher Ed.

"The AAUP is the most respected body of educators in the U.S. (possibly the world!)." Read about what the AAUP is doing about the CCSF situation and how it could impact elsewhere.

“Faculty and staff salaries do not account for any proposed tuition and fee hikes,” the Rutgers chapter of the AAUP-AFT said. Also watch the video.

"The average faculty salary at URI is $83,456, according to Frank Annunziato, executive director of the URI/AAUP," states this editorial as contrast to "Weygand's windfall."

About a hiring that appears to pit professional competence against academic freedom, the AAUP's Bob Kreiser said, "He has the freedom to carry out the research that he judges to be appropriate, but his colleagues have the freedom as well, and indeed the responsibility, to assess his research in terms of norms of the profession." For a sampling of the coverage of the story, see: ABC,