2013 Media Releases

04.18.2013 | No Justification for Tenure Terminations at National Louis University

This report concludes that administrators at National Louis University had no acceptable financial or educational justification for discontinuing fourteen academic programs, closing four departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, and terminating the appointments of at least sixty-three full-time faculty members.

04.08.2013 | “Here’s The News”: AAUP Releases Faculty Salary Report

Salaries for full-time faculty members at American colleges and universities continue to recover slowly from the ongoing recession in higher education, but the longer-term trends are not promising. That’s the finding in this year’s annual report on faculty compensation and the economics of higher education issued by the American Association of University Professors.

04.04.2013 | AAUP Releases Investigative Report on SUBR

This report investigates the declaration of financial exigency at Southern University, Baton Rouge (SUBR), and the subsequent terminations of tenured professors and restructuring of academic programs. 

03.14.2013 | AAUP Releases Investigative Report on UVA

The report documents a major breakdown in governance at UVA, focusing on the role of the board of visitors and its rector, Helen Dragas, who initiated the effort to force the president’s resignation.

01.15.2013 | The Faculty Role in Financial Exigency

Widespread program closures represent a massive transfer of power from the faculty to the administration over curricular matters. These developments are addressed in a new draft report, The Role of the Faculty in Conditions of Financial Exigency.