Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure

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.

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 addresses the applicability of the Standards for Notice of Nonreappointment to all full-time faculty members on renewable term appointments. The Association emphasize that the safeguards that the standards for notice are intended to provide extend to contingent faculty members.

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 protections of academic due process in sexual harassment cases. It sets forth specific procedural requirements in processing a complaint against a member of the faculty and emphasizes that the protections of academic due process are necessary for the individual, for the institution, and for the principles of academic freedom and tenure.

This 1994 statement addresses campus speech codes and advises consideration of means more compatible with the mission of an academic institution by which to deal with incivility, intolerance, offensive speech, and harassing behavior.

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 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.