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Brian Soucek (not verified)
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:57pm
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Protections for librarians at the University of California
Your topic is such an important one, and one we really grappled with here at the University of California. I'd be curious what you think of the result--a new section that we added to our systemwide academic personnel manual to extend protections to "non-faculty academic appointees". It's here: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-011.pdf
I had hoped that UC's work on this issue might inspire other schools to follow suit, but I'm not aware of that yet happening.
Danya Leebaw (not verified)
Wed, 10/27/2021 - 3:18pm
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re: Protections for Librarians at the University of California
Thank you for your response and question! I am familiar with the impressive work that the UC Librarians did to advocate for academic freedom protections for librarians and ultimately win these protections for not only librarians, but other professional academic staff. In fact, Alexis and I led a session with the librarians' union at their annual assembly earlier this year on thinking through these new rights in practice, brainstorming and discussing potential scenarios where academic freedom might be at issue. We are very inspired by you and all the UC librarians who did this work! And I too hope that over time, other librarians see this as an option at their own institutions.
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