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.
A new draft statement discusses communication between faculties and governing boards in colleges and universities and urges increased faculty-board communication.
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.
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.
The AAUP's bimonthly magazine explores developments in higher education from the perspective of faculty members. Recent feature articles have examined work and family issues, affirmative action, contingent faculty appointments, intellectual property, and other timely topics. The Association's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession (known as the "salary survey") is published in the March–April issue of Academe. Other Association reports are published in the Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, which is published as the July-August issue of Academe.
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Access to Unemployment Insurance Benefits for Contingent Faculty: A Manual for Applicants and a Strategy to Gain Full Rights to Benefits. By Joe Berry, Beverly Stewart, and Helena Worthen.
2008. (48 pp.)
$6.
Though many contingent faculty members have no assurance of continued employment, they are often denied unemployment benefits between academic terms. This guidebook, published by the Chicago Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor with financial assistance from the AAUP, offers advice for individual contingent faculty members about filing for unemployment and discusses strategies that can be used by faculty organizations and their allies at the local, state, and national levels to make benefits more accessible to contingent academic laborers. The guidebook’s text can also be downloaded from the Chicago COCAL Web site: www.chicagococal.org.
Paychecks: A Guide to Conducting Salary-Equity Studies for Higher Education Faculty, 2nd ed.
By Lois Haignere.
2002. (105 pp.)
$10.75 AAUP member price.
$20.75 Nonmember price.
Paychecks is a resource for those who want to investigate bias in faculty salaries or interpret the results of other studies. The new expanded edition of Paychecks describes ways to detect gender and race bias among faculty in the same rank, select a salary-equity consultant, remedy bias when it is found, and accomplish other tasks related to ensuring equity in faculty salaries.
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