POSTED BY THE AAUP On August 23, AAUP President Irene Mulvey advocated for community health, safety, and faculty involvement in university decision-making in an interview with Michael Holmes on CNN. Watch the clip and read the transcript below. HOLMES: Irene Mulvey is president of the American Association of University Professors. She joins me now from…
BY THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY AAUP The following op-ed was published in The Lantern, the student newspaper at the Ohio State University, on August 18. In perhaps her first address to the entire Ohio State community Aug. 11, 2020, President Kristina M. Johnson spoke of our shared challenge to return to campus life in a…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Consider the following items: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the largest schools in the country to bring students to campus for in-person teaching, said Monday that it will pivot to all-remote instruction for undergraduates after testing showed a pattern of rapid spread of the novel coronavirus. The…
BY DAVID EIFLER AND MARGARET PHILLIPS When universities abruptly shut down in-person instruction in the spring, academic libraries followed suit. Librarians and other university front line workers applauded these decisions that prioritized the health and safety of staff during this unprecedented public health crisis. And libraries continued to fulfill many of their service missions in…
BY KAVITA DAIYA Just as university administrators, faculty, and students breathed a sigh of relief from the panic created by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) July 6 directive barring international students from the United States if their university chose to go online-only in the fall, ICE issued a new…
BY THE AAUP The AAUP’s Committee on Contingency and the Profession today issued the following principles and recommendations: Our world is today engulfed in the global COVID-19 pandemic, with enormous loss of life. The unemployment rate was 10.2 percent in July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many higher education institutions are preparing to…
BY BRANDON RODRIGUEZ Brandon Rodriguez is a native New Yorker whose family migrated from Puerto Rico. He grew up in the South Bronx and attends Guttman Community College, which is part of City University of New York (CUNY). This essay is reposted with permission from the Activist History Review blog. My world changed in early…
BY IRENE MULVEY AAUP president Irene Mulvey issued the following statement today: The coronavirus pandemic has impacted us all—as teachers, as researchers, as workers, and as individuals. But one thing remains constant: the public good that higher education faculty provide. AAUP clinical, medical research, nursing, and health professions faculty, along with staff and students, have…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following video press conference featured faculty members from AAUP chapters in the Midwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL3NIwdQDsk&feature=youtu.be. This coalition of AAUP chapter’s has a website at https://midwestaaupdocs.wordpress.com/about/. That website prominently includes the following statement on “Protecting Lives, Promoting Education: Principles for Reopening Campuses”: We are a coalition of American Association of University Professors…