Investigation and Inquiries

This 2001 report concerns action taken by the administration of Charleston Southern University to dismiss a faculty member for cause in the middle of his eleventh year on the faculty in violation of his academic freedom, and the nonreappointment of another after six years of faculty service.

This 2000 report concerns the action taken by the administration of Miami-Dade Community College to abolish the existing system of academic government at the institution following a faculty vote in favor of collective bargaining and to replace it with a wholly new system of governance.

This 2000 report addresses four issues at Albertus Magnus College: the procedures used by the administration to decide that Professor Michael J. Hartwig was not to be reappointed, his suspension, the reasons for the actions against Professor Hartwig, and the implications of these reasons for academic freedom.

This 1999 report addresses the decision of the Johnson & Wales University administration not to renew the appointments of Professors Stephen J. Nelson and Korynne Taylor-Dunlop and concerns issues of opportunity for review, adequacy of notice, and academic freedom.

This 1998 report concerning the actions by the administration of the University of the District of Columbia to terminate the appointments of 125 faculty members with six weeks of severance salary, without any attempt to demonstrate the need for massive terminations and disregarding AAUP governance standards.

This 1998 report concerns the actions taken by the administration of Lawrence Technological University regarding the appointment termination of Professor Ernest L. Maier following a decision to discontinue the undergraduate programs in business management.

This 1998 supplementary report concerns the action taken by the administration of Bennington College to terminate an instructor with presumptive tenure after twenty-two years of service. The first report deals with a declaration of financial exigency as justification for terminating the appointments of presumptively tenured faculty.

This 1997 report concerns the case of a denial of tenure and violations of academic freedom at Brigham Young University, after which the administration claimed limitations for religiously affiliated universities mentioned in the Association's 1940 statement.

This 1997 report concerns the action taken the previous May by the administration of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design to dismiss, with a year of severance salary, five senior members of the faculty, each of whom was completing the second year of a three-year term contract.

This 1996 report concerns the dismissal of a faculty member from the Saint Meinrad School of Theology for having signed an open letter to Pope John Paul II asking that continued discussion be permitted concerning the question of ordaining women to the priesthood.