Read an open letter to Purdue president Mitch Daniels from 90 Purdue professors on Academe Blog. This letter was written in response to recent news reports about emails written while governor of Indiana.

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A new draft statement discusses communication between faculties and governing boards in colleges and universities and urges increased faculty-board communication.

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This report argues that requiring faculty members to sign confidentiality agreements as a requirement to serve on university committees is in most cases inconsistent with widely accepted standards of shared governance and with the concept of serving as a representative. 

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Recent years have witnessed massive closings of academic programs that are basic to a college or university’s curriculum, with a resulting erosion in the number and the authority of the tenured faculty.  The AAUP responded last month when its Council adopted as official policy the final text of a major report, The Role of the Faculty in Conditions of Financial Exigency. 

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