The Time Has Come for the UW to Admit it Was Wrong. A few days ago, a respected colleague dismissed Andrew Aprikyan’s case, saying that “of course” Dr. Aprikyan was and is guilty. I refused to comment, not because I know that Andrew Aprikyan is innocent but because I feel Dr. Apr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘AAUP’
December 22nd, 2010 - 1:47 pm § in UW
Oh too Cautious Statement on Academic Freedom
(disclaimer: I have taken the academic freedom of retouching a picture of Cary Nelson to look like Santa and me!) Cary Nelson, current President of the national AAUP, has a year ending post on the most important tenet of the AAUP, Academic Freedom. Sadly, what comes off is an overly legalistic[...]
Not so “shared governance” at WSU?
Washington State U. Defies AAUP Chapter With Budget Cuts December 17, 2010, 2:45 pm Washington State University officials have moved ahead with $13.5-million in budget cuts over the objections of that institution’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which protested that [...]
December 17th, 2010 - 11:51 am § in Politics
Across the Board Salary Cuts at UW?
see other posts on budgets and governance. From: “Paul E. Jenny” <[email protected]> Date: December 16, 2010 6:29:50 PM PST Subject: [Administrators_opb] Governor’s Across-the-Board Compensation Reduction for All State Employees Hello all. As you know, the Governor rele[...]
December 16th, 2010 - 10:27 pm § in Politics
Limits on Free Speach Overturned by Penn. State Faculty
PENN STATE FACULTY CODE “No faculty member may claim as a right the privilege of discussing in the classroom controversial topics outside his/her own field of study. The faculty member is normally bound not to take advantage of his/her position by introducing into the classroom provocative dis[...]
December 11th, 2010 - 3:55 am § in Misc.
UW Senate Reviews Emmert’s Arbitrary Decisions in the Aprikyan Case
News on Aprikyan (see previous entries here): The Senate leadership and the Secretary of the Faculty are seeking advice from the Advisory Committee on Faculty Code and Regulations about the principles upon which the President based his overturning of the faculty Panel’s decision. The plan is for[...]
November 24th, 2010 - 12:05 am § in Misc.
UW Faculty Council Chair Defends Stadium
Letter from William Rorabaugh (AAUP Listserv ay UW) Colleagues – A couple of points. First, revenue bonds have long been used by UW to build facilities. Parking structures are built with bonds to be paid off with future parking revenues. The Med School K-Wing’s research space was b[...]
November 13th, 2010 - 9:10 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
AAUP Writes Letter to Presidential Search Committee, While Only 2 Faculty Show Up to Talk with The Commitee!
Letter to the Search Committee from the AAUP: “Mark Emmert gravely undermined the principles of shared governance.” The University Chapter of the AAUP has written a very worrisome letter to the Presidential Search Committee. The key charge in the letter is that the administration has u[...]
November 3rd, 2010 - 10:21 am § in Misc.
What Nov. 2 says about the search for a new UW President.
Roger Valdez, at Crosscut, has stated my own feelings about last night’s election better than I could. Valdez praises Reaganesque devotion to ” principles, stating them simply and clearly over and over again, recruiting candidates who have an unalloyed belief in those principles, and doi[...]
November 1st, 2010 - 8:36 am § in Uncategorized
How Did that Free Speech Stuff Treat You?
On the AAUP listserv, Raya Fidel posted an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education bemoaning the loss of free speech on campus. THE-Ave.US would like to strongly support Raya’s headline: Reasons for updating the academic freedom statement in the Faculty Code Am I missing something? I [...]