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No Process Is Not Due Process
AAUP says St. Edward's U flouted norms surrounding shared governance, due process and academic freedom when it dismissed two "squeaky wheel" professors and didn't renew a third. University says otherwise.
‘A Global Crisis of Attacks’
Annual globally focused report documents nearly 300 "attacks" on higher education, including violent assaults against campuses or individual scholars, killings of student protesters, cases of imprisonment or criminal prosecution, and restrictions on academic travel.
A Non-Tenure-Track Profession?
About three-quarters of all faculty positions are off the tenure track, according to new AAUP analysis. While many now work on multiyear contracts, their academic freedom remains of concern.
A Study Abroad Boycott
A second instructor at the University of Michigan declines to write a letter for a student to study in Israel, citing support for the boycott, and a first professor who refused to write a letter is disciplined. Meanwhile, Israel has detained and ordered the deportation of a U.S. student for her support for the boycott movement.
'Rigorous Inquiry and Respectful Debate'
Colgate offers up its own statement on campus speech, arguing that it's not just what you say, it's how you say it.
An Immodest Proposal
A conservative professor is under fire for comparing -- facetiously, he says -- Judge Brett Kavanaugh's alleged actions to "spin the bottle," and for suggesting limiting judicial nominees to rapists. Students say his words are dangerous, but he thinks he's collateral damage in the culture wars.
‘An Unacceptable Breach of Trust’
Editors of book series stop publishing with Springer Nature to protest its acquiescence to Chinese government censorship demands.
Dean Suspended for Tweet on Kavanaugh Accuser
His social media posts raise questions of professional responsibility, sexism and free expression.