2010 AAUP Updates

The AAUP and other groups submitted an amicus brief yesterday to a Colorado Court of Appeals, arguing that the University of Colorado should reinstate a tenured professor whose free speech rights were violated. 

The AAUP chapter at Monmouth University in New Jersey has signed a three year agreement with the university that provides for raises in each year as well as improvements in several areas. The chapter represents full-time faculty in collective bargaining.

Yesterday, members of the University of Akron AAUP chapter ratified a contract with the administration. 

The AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom is the first journal devoted entirely to the subject of academic freedom.

The study demonstrates the continued relevance and power of the AAUP’s concept of shared governance. 

Update 2/16/10: The AAUP and other coalition members sent a letter to secretary of state Hillary Clinton thanking her for ending the exclusion of Habib and Ramadan and asking her to reconsider other, similar cases.

USA Today finds that at many institutions, athletic programs continue to receive large subsidies--even while instructional budgets are being cut. 

AAUP reports outrageous violations of faculty rights at Clark Atlanta University.