2011 Media Releases

10.24.2011 | New Union Responds to Challenges

10/24/11 Update:
The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board on Friday rejected a request from the University of Illinois at Chicago administration to stay an order certifying the faculty union. This is good news for the faculty and the latest in a series of findings that the faculty does have the right to bargain collectively. In its ruling, the board said "We find that granting a stay in this case would be contrary to the public policy that supports a duty to bargain. In addition, we find that there is not a reasonable likelihood that the Employer will succeed on the merits."

08.01.2011 | AAUP Report Finds Violations of Academic Freedom

Administrators at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge violated the academic freedom of two  faculty members--one tenured, one in a contingent appointment. 

06.15.2011 | "We Are Ohio” Gathers Record Number of Signatures

7/22 Update: Yesterday, the Ohio Secretary of State announced that the repeal of SB 5 will be on the ballot in November. More than 900,000 signatures were validated from all 88 counties. In addition, all 88 counties which have reported also exceeded the 3% threshold of voters from the last gubernatorial election. The response to repeal SB 5, the unfair attack on employee rights and worker safety, far outpaces any other signature collection drive in Ohio history.

06.14.2011 | Censure Removals Bring Closure

 Delegates to the Ninety-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) voted on June 11 to remove the University of New Orleans and Loyola University New Orleans, the city’s two universities that remained on the AAUP’s list of censured administrations from its censure list. 

06.13.2011 | AAUP Censures One, Sanctions Two, and Removes Censure from Two

Delegates to the Ninety-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) voted on June 11 to place Bethune Cookman University (.pdf) on the AAUP’s list of censured administrations. In addition, the delegates voted to sanction Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (.pdf) and Idaho State University. The annual meeting also voted to remove the University of New Orleans (.pdf)  and Loyola University New Orleans  from its censured administration list.

06.11.2011 | Dr. Anthony S. Tricoli Receives AAUP’s Ralph S. Brown Award for Shared Governance

The Brown Award is given to American college or university administrators or trustees “in recognition of an outstanding contribution to shared governance.” 

06.11.2011 | “The Real Science Gap” Receives the AAUP’s Award for Excellence in Coverage of Higher Education

Writer Beryl Lieff Benderly was honored for her entry, “The Real Science Gap,” a cover story for Miller-McCune.

06.01.2011 | Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education

The AAUP will host its Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education on June 8-12 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Panels providing a faculty perspective on critical issues in higher education will run all day Wednesday, June 8 through Saturday, June 11.  The conference will also include special AAUP-sponsored workshops on “Understanding Institutional Financial Information,” “Making Senates Effective,” and “Effective Faculty Handbooks.”

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