BY THE AAUP

Fall 2021 | Vol. 107, No. 4

The fall 2021 issue of Academe surveys the present state of academic governance. It includes a new report on findings of the 2021 AAUP Shared Governance Survey, firsthand accounts of governance struggles on campuses around the country, and a pair of articles that confront the threat posed by attacks on critical race theory.

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The 2021 AAUP Shared Governance Survey: Findings on Demographics of Senate Chairs and Governance Structures
New survey data on the present state of governance.
By Hans-Joerg Tiede

Are We Really Supporting the Inclusion of Contingent Faculty in Governance?
It is time to compensate contingent faculty members for shared governance work.
By Shawn Gilmore

How Not to Conduct a Presidential Search
A failed system president search in Wisconsin.
By Nicholas Fleisher

Interdisciplinarity’s Shared Governance Problem
When “division” means subtraction.
By Matthew Dean Hindman

Austerity Is Not a Jesuit Value
Organizing to defend the educational mission.
By Gerry Canavan, Nathan Ellstrand, Samuel Harshner, Samantha Iyer, Maggie Levantovskaya, Tanya Loughead, Dianna Taylor, and Prasad Venugopal

Critical Race Theory and the Assault on Antiracist Thinking
What counts as racism?
By Rana Jaleel

Holding the Line against Attacks on Critical Race Theory in Nebraska
How academic freedom trumped politics.
By William Avilés

Dissecting the Tactics of the University of Evansville’s Realignment (Online Only)
One university’s failure to adhere to AAUP-recommended standards and principles offers broader lessons.
By Robert Baines

The Shadow Curriculum of Student Affairs (Online Only)
Student affairs is encroaching on areas long held to be faculty responsibilities.
By Martha McCaughey and Scott Welsh