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Protect Your Intellectual Property

BY STEVE BUTTES Last week the AAUP launched its Faculty Anti-Privatization Network (FAN) week of action and shared new resources to raise awareness and build faculty solidarity around the increasing risks that online programs are posing to the academic freedom, shared governance, educational quality, and reputation of public and private institutions across the country. This…

CSU Management’s Shameful Positions on Academic Freedom and Faculty Intellectual Property

BY HANK REICHMAN In Fall 2017 the California Faculty Association (CFA), an AAUP-affiliated union representing nearly 28,000 California State University (CSU) faculty, librarians, counselors, and coaches, and CSU management agreed to extend their collective bargaining agreement.  As part of that agreement, the sides agreed to continue negotiations over academic freedom and intellectual property with the…