POSTED BY KELLY HAND
The new issue of Academe highlights the power of faculty to build strength on their campuses by organizing through AAUP advocacy and collective bargaining chapters. Articles focus on presidential searches, private donor influence, adjunct faculty activism, risks of gun violence, retirement, and other topics.
Follow the links in the table of contents below or read the entire issue at https://www.aaup.org/issue/spring-2019.
FEATURES
The Costs of Closed Searches
The secret presidency and the campus community.
By Frank D. LoMonte
Ohio AAUP Chapters Contend with Secretive Searches
A spotlight on the troubled history of closed presidential searches in Ohio.
By John T. McNay
George Mason University’s Donor Problem and the Fight for Transparency
The public stakes of private donor influence.
By Bethany L. Letiecq
Organizing in the Noncommunity Community College
Building AAUP chapters against the odds.
By Caprice Lawless
To Lock a Door, It Takes a Puck
How one AAUP chapter improved safety in the classroom.
By Thomas A. Discenna
Thinking about Retirement
Policies for late-career and retired faculty.
By Karie Frasch, Marc Goulden, Angelica Stacy, and Janet Broughton
A Modest(y) Proposal (online only)
Challenging the overrepresentation of elite institutions.
By Eva-Maria Swidler
Data Snapshot: New AAUP Data on Part-Time Faculty Pay and Benefits (online only)
A closer look at the least secure and worst remunerated faculty positions.
By John W. Curtis
Data Snapshot: What Do We Know about Adjunct Faculty Retirement Savings? (online only)
New findings from a TIAA Institute study.
By Paul Yakoboski
BOOK REVIEWS
Distant Learning
Christopher P. Loss reviews Media U by Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx.
Campus Free-Speech Principles in Conflict
Jack M. Balkin reviews Speak Freely by Keith E. Whittington.
Latino Students on Campus
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez reviews Learning to Be Latino by Daisy Verduzco Reyes.
Defending the Research University
Maryann P. Feldman reviews Research Universities and the Public Good by Jason Owen-Smith.
CHAPTER PROFILE
Plymouth State University AAUP
COLUMNS
From the Editor: Building Strength on Campus
Legal Watch: A Bad Deal for Westminster Choir College
State of the Profession: Strengthening Faculty-Board Relationships
From the President: The Significance of the Wright State Strike
NOTA BENE
Investigation at Maricopa Community Colleges
Investigation at Vermont Law School
Faculty Compensation Survey Data and 2018-19 Report
Opposing Executive Action on Free Speech
AAUP Comments on Proposed Changes to Title IX Regulations
Rutgers Full-Time Faculty and Grads Win Contract
Indiana Conference and Purdue AAUP Reclaim Student Rights
Hewlett Foundation Funds Committee A Meetings
AAUP Foundation Supports UnKoch My Campus Report
Foundation Grants Advance Understanding of Academic Freedom
Remembering William Van Alstyne
AAUP BUSINESS
Developments Relating to Association Censure and Sanction
AAUP posters, including an expanded version of the image on this issue’s cover and “Proud to Be AAUP” posters for advocacy and collective bargaining members, are available for download at https://www.aaup.org/posters.
