2015 AAUP Updates

The nominatio​ns period for the 2016 governing council election has closed and the Nominating Committee issued its final report on Dec 21.

22 part-time faculty at the Los Angeles campus of Emerson College overwhelmingly won a National Labor Relations Board-supervised election for union representation, choosing to be represented by the American Association of University Professors.

A report released today presents the results of an investigation into the search process leading to the selection of Bruce Harreld as president of the University of Iowa.

A report out from the AAUP finds severe departures from generally accepted standards of academic governance and details how the administration at the New Jersey community college sharply diminished the role and influence of the faculty in the college’s governance system.

Long-serving full-time faculty members on renewable term appointments should be afforded the same procedural protections against involuntary separation as tenured faculty members.

In a statement issued today, the AAUP and three other groups support efforts to make college campuses as safe and weapon-free as possible. We oppose “campus carry” laws and encourage colleges and universities to embrace critical incident planning that includes faculty and staff and to advise all faculty and staff of these plans. 

The AAUP issued a statement about policies drafted by the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents following the removal of tenure and shared governance protections from Wisconsin state law. In spite of prior assurances by the Regents that policies would respect AAUP standards and principles, recommendations currently under consideration include proposals for post-tenure review that raise serious concerns.

Joining in an amicus brief filed by the American Council on Education on October 30 in the US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the AAUP reaffirmed its longstanding commitment to promoting the educational value of diversity. This is the second time the Supreme Court has considered Fisher’s challenge to the use of race as a consideration in the University of Texas’s holistic admissions process and the fourth time the AAUP has joined an amicus brief in the case.