Responding to Robert Kuttner

BY HANK REICHMAN I usually admire American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner’s writings, but a short piece published online today, “The Republican Attack on Tenure,” got my hackles up a bit.  Most of the piece is fine, calling appropriate attention to the assault on both tenure and academic freedom being waged by the GOP in red…

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Call for Proposals: The Higher Ed Data Juggernaut

BY SIOBHAN SENIER Few faculty have the knowledge—or the time—to consider how information about us and our work is being collected and used. AAUP’s Academe magazine is soliciting contributions for a special issue on data mining and learning analytics, especially as these phenomena affect faculty governance and workload. What data, exactly, are colleges and universities…

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AAUP Report Offers Snapshot of Tenure Practices and Policies

BY HANS-JOERG TIEDE Today, we released the 2022 AAUP Survey of Tenure Practices, the first survey of its kind since 2004. The findings offer a snapshot of prevailing tenure practices and policies at four-year institutions with tenure systems. Among those findings, the survey found that tenure is highly prevalent throughout US higher education, with 87 percent…

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Academe Explores Higher Ed’s Obligations Beyond Campus

POSTED BY SARAH MINK Volume 109, Number 2 The spring issue of Academe explores the complexities of higher education’s obligations to the outside world. In articles that emphasize the imperative to engage with—and develop policies responsive to—social concerns, contributors look beyond traditional ways of framing the relationship between campuses and communities. Download the whole issue as a PDF (AAUP…

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AAUP Presents Is Back with New Episodes

BY MARIAH QUINN AAUP Presents is back with three new episodes, including episodes on academic freedom in Florida and student debt’s effects on faculty.  In our first new episode of 2022, we talk to AAUP government relations specialist Kaitlyn Vitez and Jessica Sponsler, art historian, adjunct professor, and AAUP’s Pennsylvania state conference president, about student…

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New Academe Explores Pandemic Changes to Faculty Organizing

POSTED BY SARAH MINK The winter issue of Academe explores how the pandemic has changed faculty organizing and engendered new kinds of solidarity. The articles offer snapshots of the recent work of AAUP chapters around the country, provide templates for expanding the faculty’s influence on campus, and draw out lessons that chapters can carry forward into…

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Announcing the New Podcast AAUP Presents

BY MARIAH QUINN The AAUP has launched a podcast called AAUP Presents, which takes a look at issues such as shared governance, academic freedom, and institutional debt. The first three episodes are available now. The series kicks off with an interview with AAUP president Irene Mulvey, who takes us through some of AAUP’s work this…

In Defense of Lars Jensen, Part 1

BY JOHN K. WILSON On October 22, I testified as an expert witness on academic freedom at a hearing to dismiss Lars Jensen, a tenured math professor at Truckee Meadow Community College (TMCC) in Nevada. Because I wasn’t able to make my full argument about Jensen’s case (the attorney for the administration opposed my testimony,…