AAUP in the Media
Lou Romano, AAUP member and president of the Wayne State Academic Senate, explains why tenure is so important in research institutions in "New tenure regulations would devastate WSU." Sign a petiton to preserve tenure at Wayne State University. (8/14)
AAUP and 39 other education associations signed an amicus brief in favor of upholding affirmative action admission policies in a case involving the University of Texas at Austin. Read the brief and the story in The Chronicle of Higher Education. (8/14)
About their new contract, AAUP chapter president Deanna Wood told the Foster's Daily Democrat, "I think two and a half years is a long time to negotiate a contract, and each side felt it had reached the point where two fact finder reports had come in with very similar recommendations and it was time to settle." (8/9)
In a letter to the University of Missouri System president Tim Wolfe, AAUP's Robert Keiser wrote, "it seems plain that the administration and board should have consulted with the faculty before reaching the decisions it did regarding the press. The process reportedly followed by the administration, in suddenly announcing the closure of the existing press and replacing it with an experimental 'new press model,' seems to us at odds with aforementioned principles of shared responsibility and action." Read an article and this letter in The Columbia Daily Tribune. Update: "If Wolfe doesn't quite get it yet, AAUP is trying to school him on what shared governance means." AAUP Missouri Conference president David K. Robinson in the Daily Tribune.(8/9)