As a result in “bad faith,” conducted a dismissal hearing that of restructuring changes that took effect this year, the the report calls a “sham exercise.” With respect to power to add an administration to the censure list now academic freedom, the report found that the relatively lies with the AAUP’s governing Council, which voted to minor nature of the misconduct in which the faculty impose cens. [...] conference call with the AAUP in which the president, A t its June meeting Committee A approved a state- the vice president, and three faculty senate leaders ment, “Faculty Suspensions for Security Reasons,” participated, the president wrote to inform the AAUP formulated jointly with the Committee on Gender that within the next few months the faculty senate and Sexuality in the Academic Profession. [...] Despite the difficulties presented by ened violence.” The statement “affirms the necessity the COVID-19 pandemic, on May 28 the faculty sen- of maximizing safety” but notes that when a faculty ate voted to adopt the AAUP-proposed language, and member is removed from the classroom in response to later that week the AAUP representative met virtually harassment, “the harassers have won.” The text of. [...] Still others—those that emphasized the need to protect Conclusion academic freedom—are gestured to repeatedly in the I want to thank the members of Committee A for their comment section of the new regulations, but the regu- tireless work on behalf of the principles of academic lations themselves fail to adequately protect faculty freedom, our profession, and the AAUP. [...] In an The staff offered to write an advisory letter to advisory letter to the faculty member, the AAUP staff the chapter addressing these issues, with the stated member pointed out that the first alternative was expectation that the chapter would share the let- tantamount to a suspension, since it entailed remov- ter with the administration and board.
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