BY HANK REICHMAN On March 17, President Elizabeth Hillman of Mills College announced that the trustees of the 169-year-old women’s college in Oakland, California, had decided to close admissions after this year and stop conferring degrees no later than Fall 2023, thereby effectively closing the school. According to Hillman, an undefined “Mills Institute” will continue…
BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AAUP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dear Colleagues, Are you troubled by the direction that the University of Maryland has headed in recent years? We are. In March 2021, we relaunched the University of Maryland Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (UMD AAUP) because we believe a different university is possible.…
BY PAUL CAMPOS The following is reposted with permission from the Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog. Paul Campos is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Here are some numbers that I hope speak for themselves. ALL FIGURES ARE INFLATION-ADJUSTED INTO CONSTANT 2018 OR 2019 DOLLARS. Salary of full-time faculty at American colleges…
BY STEVEN LUBET Hank Reichman’s recent post on the Bandy Lee case at the Yale Medical School raises an important point that deserves some further consideration. To recap, Dr. Lee has sued Yale for firing her from an unpaid, part-time position in the psychiatry department. Lee’s offense involved tweeting about the mental health of Donald…
BY MARTIN KICH I initially became involved in AAUP because I was very impressed by Rudy Fichtenbaum’s and Jim Vance’s commitment to defending our colleagues’ right to fair treatment—by their commitment to the principles that I would come to recognize as the core principles of AAUP: academic freedom, shared governance, and economic security. I recall…
The Association for University Regional Campuses of Ohio (AURCO) has announced a free virtual lunch series taking place April 5-9 between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm each day. The free series features a great lineup of speakers from several campuses presenting on a wide range of subjects. If you are interested in attending any of the online…
BY HANK REICHMAN Bandy Lee, a former Yale University faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, filed suit in federal court March 22 against the University alleging “unlawful termination… due to her exercise of free speech about the dangers of Donald Trump’s presidency.” Lee charges that Yale fired her in…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Earlier today, Boise State University lifted its suspension on 52 classes with 1300 students for UF 200: Foundations of Ethics & Diversity. This was a necessary correction to a serious mistake the administration made last week when it announced one of the largest attacks on academic freedom in American history, with 52…
BY JOHN K. WILSON Jennifer Ruth, who is a contributing editor here at AcademeBlog as well as a professor of film studies at Portland State University (PSU) and a member of the AAUP’s Committee A, published an important op-ed this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and so I wanted to offer my critique…
BY THE AAUP We stand in sorrow and solidarity with Asian and Asian-American communities, who are facing an escalating series of racist attacks, including this week’s horrific attack in Georgia, in which anti-Asian racism compounded with misogyny evidently resulted in the murder of eight people. Anti-Asian racism has been a recurring theme in United States…