Kushner, CUNY and Academic Freedom - NYTimes.com

Kushner, CUNY and Academic Freedom - NYTimes.com
Thoughtful comments from Stanley Fish on academic freedom.

Spring 2011 issue of the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom

Whether by chance or by fate, the spring 2011 issue of the AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom has turned out to be rather timely.
At a moment when faculty unionization is paradoxically at once resurgent and under assault, Bill Lyne lays out rather clearly what its benefits can be for shared governance.
John Champagne and John Powell mount philosophical, political, and pedagogical critiques of the relentlessly expanding assessment movement (if essays arrive on the other side of that question, by the way, we would be happy to consider them).

AAUP: New Faculty Union in Illinois

AAUP: New Faculty Union in Illinois

Statement urging a vote against the “Proposal for the new Academic Program Protocol (as amended at the April 27, 2011 faculty meeting)”

The Executive Committee of the JCU chapter of the AAUP urges you to vote against approval of one of the proposals on the ballot for a Faculty-wide vote this week, “the new Academic Program Protocol.” Though amended at today’s Faculty Meeting, the proposed procedure that CAP is to use for evaluation and recommendation of academic programs remains ambiguous and vague on the need for “endorsement” or “approval” from non-academic sectors of the university. The Faculty Handbook, Part One, Section V, clearly grants primary responsibility on matters of curriculum to the Faculty. The promulgation of a list of regulations that seems to require review and endorsement of new curricula outside of the Faculty endangers this responsibility.

Great Colleges to Work For - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Great Colleges to Work For - The Chronicle of Higher Education

CUNY Faculty Fears Course-Transfer Proposal Could Jeopardize Its Say on Curricula - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education

CUNY Faculty Fears Course-Transfer Proposal Could Jeopardize Its Say on Curricula - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education

AAUP Member Newsletter: Recession Over? Not for Higher Ed

While the Great Recession may be technically over in the broader US economy, the same cannot be said in the higher education sector. The results of the American Association of University Professors’ annual survey of full-time faculty compensation are only marginally better than last year’s and represent the continuation of a historic low period for faculty salaries. For the second consecutive year, the overall average salary level increased at a rate less than inflation. And this is the fifth of the last seven years in which overall faculty salaries declined in purchasing power.