Even Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his Miranda rights … not so Andrew Aprikyan. This UW faculty member was tried and convicted of criminal activities without even being told of his rights. The President of the University, a man selected for his job based on qualifications to manage the a[...]
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April 24th, 2013 - 9:28 am § in The Ave Scene
“It is expressly understood that Respondent does not admit to any of the allegations”
Andrew Apranik’s reposnse to the NIH findings against him. Brief story: Andrew was charged with scientific offenses by the administration fo the UW School of Medicine. The UW faculty, following the Faculty Code and administrative rules of the UW, convened council of the faculty made up of [...]
BREAKING NEWS: UW violates basic principles of law.
A good deal of the reason for The AVE has been my concern about administrative abuse of faculty rights. As one example, The AVE has provided extensive coverage of the Aprikyan affair. Now we will likely never find out whether Andrew Aprikyan ever did anything wrong. Instead a team of lawyers, h[...]
Supreme Court: Rights of Stanford vs. Roche to Intellectual Property
Ed: The title above is misleading. As previously discussed on The Ave, Stanford vs. Roche Molecular has evolved into a battle over the patents rights of faculty members. The case esp. important at the UW because, unlike Stanford faculty we do not sign a contract. Instead our working agreem[...]
OSU Charged with Arbitrary, Political Action to End Students’ Careers
Ed. The lack of due process in the UW’s Aprikyan affair undermines the public trust a university need. That trust is not in the administration, it is a trust in the rigor of academic ethics. The following story, whatever the truth, is warning shot about what can happen when University [...]
A Response to Politicians in Ohio and Olympia: “We shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.”
Ohio Senate Votes to Deny Collective-Bargaining Rights to Most Public-College Professors This time I may be siding with the enemy. An article in the linked issue of the Chronicle reports that the Ohio State Senate is joining Wisconsin in ruling that faculty do not have collective bargaining rights. [...]
February 24th, 2011 - 8:43 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
UPDATE: AAUP Responds to Disbanding of Faculty Senate at Iowa State University
AAUP Threatens to Investigate Idaho State U. February 23, 2011, 11:15 am The American Association of University Professors is threatening to investigate Idaho State University over the recent suspension of the institution’s Fa Click Here for original article Full Text culty Senate. The warning com[...]
The Lab: A Video on Scientific Misconduct
Ed. The issue of scientific misconduct is a hot one at the UW. The President and Provost fired Professor Andrew Aprikyan despite the universal finding by a Senate panel that the UW had not followed due process. In my opinion, the UW has done a poor job. A lack of due process means that we [&[...]
Candidate for UW Presidency: How does he view WA state Faculty Code?
Duane Storti on the AAUP blog has raised an important point. Unlike some other universities, the UW uses neither individual contracts not a union contract to hire faculty. Instead, we are very lucky to have a Faculty Code, written by our own Faculty Senate and endorsed by the President and Regen[...]
February 10th, 2011 - 6:28 pm § in Misc.
UW Senate Blog
Link here to Senate Blog. Because the UW Senate Blog is published behind the UW firewall, those Ave readers can not directly access this public record. As a service to the wider community, we will periodically, repost the blog here on the Ave. UW faculty, students and staff should be able to acces[...]