UPDATE: Andrew Aprikyan’s fight with the UW will continue. As we have reported extensively on The AVE, Andrew has repeatedly asserted that he is innocent. He states that “is work has been corroborated by investigators elsewhere ans arose because of a disgruntled collaborator here ta[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Aprikyan’
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[...]
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 [...]
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 [&[...]
Wise on Aprikyan, “I can’t say that we would not [in the future].”
By Daron Anderson February 18, 2011 View this day’s paper in PDF …….Janelle Taylor, a UW faculty senator who is also president of AAUP’s UW chapter, became concerned about the adjudication process after assistant research professor Andrew Aprikyan was terminated for scientific mi[...]
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[...]
February 7th, 2011 - 1:14 am § in Schools & Colleges
Regents Shred Faculty Senate at RPI!
from Inside Higher Education, Feb 2, 2011 When the Faculty Senate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute voted, in spring 2006, to widen its membership to include contingent faculty, it set in motion a series of events that left the senate in a state of limbo and shredded the notion of shared governanc[...]
What The New State Supreme Decision On Faculty Discipline Means
This last Thursday, February 3, 2011, the Washington Supreme Court handed down a decision that clarifies the legal framework under which state universities and colleges may discipline tenured faculty members accused of misconduct. The case is Mills v. Western Washington University, Docket No. 83597-[...]
Senate Chair: Aprikyan was wronged.
Originally posted 17 Jan. Updated Jan 24 because of a comment that may interest others. Please read comments. Ed Note: This is copied from the UW Senate Blog. Unfortunately, and I suspect illegally, that blog is protected from public view. UW staff, however can access the blog directly[...]