Investigation and Inquiries

This 1996 report concerns the cases of two faculty members and the lack of due process in their dismissal proceedings at Garland County Community College, now National Park College. The report found that they were denied academic due process and provided insufficient severance.

This 1995 report concerns the termination of the appointments of eight members of the faculty at Alaska Pacific University. The administration initially linked the actions to a potential financial problem, but the terminations were not necessitated by financial exigency nor were they necessitated by formal discontinuance of program based on educational considerations.

This 1995 report deals with a 1994 declaration of financial exigency at Bennington College as justification for terminating the appointments of 27 presumptively tenured faculty. The College's financial crisis originated in the 1970s but had rapidly deteriorated in the 1990s with little faculty consultation.

This 1994 report discusses the sudden termination of a number of faculty members at Benedict College by the administration for unsubstantiated claims of financial exigency. The report finds that the administration's authoritarian control runs counter to AAUP standards of academic governance and academic freedom.

This 1993 report concerns the action taken by the administration of the University of Bridgeport to terminate the appointments of two professors on thirty days' notice for a "restructuring" along with approximately fifty others. At the time of this action the professors had each completed more than thirty years of service at the university.

This 1993 report deals primarily with conditions of academic government at Elmira College, particularly relations among the faculty, the chief academic officers, and the governing board. The committee describes a series of events and dysfunctional relationships that resulted in an atmosphere inimical to shared governance.

This 1993 report concerns the actions of the administration of North Greenville College in terminating the appointments of two professors without affording them the safeguards of academic due process. Because tenure is no longer granted at North Greenville College, its procedural protections are not available to the majority of faculty members who serve indefinitely on term appointments.

This 1993 report concerns the action of the administration of Savannah College of Art and Design in terminating faculty members without cause or due process, and in some cases in violation of their academic freedom. The events took place following undergraduate and graduate student organizing prompted faculty members to create a faculty senate.

This 1992 report concerns the action taken by the administration of the New Community College of Baltimore to terminate a tenured faculty member without cause or due process following an announced termination of tenure commitments with the transfer of the college's control from the city of Baltimore to the state of Maryland.

This 1992 report concerns the dismissal of three faculty members by the administration of Loma Linda University, a Seventh Day Adventist institution, and the condition of academic freedom and tenure in general at that university. The report finds that they were dismissed without cause and denied academic due process.