2012 AAUP in the News

Joerg Tiede of the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance discusses the AAUP's new report on confidentiality with Inside Higher Ed.

Andrew Ross, the president of N.Y.U.’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors and an outspoken critic of Dr. Sexton, dismissed the question altogether. “There has never been a vote of no confidence at N.Y.U., so there is no procedural precedent.”

"The Yale Corporation can say all it wants to say about academic freedom in Singapore, but it’s not true that in such an authoritarian state one can maintain an acceptable level of academic freedom,”  AAUP past president Cary Nelson tells the Yale Daily News.

Read about why the Bowling Green State University faculty have filed an unfair labor charge.

AAUP's Jenn Nichols explains to George Washington Hachet readers why hiring fewer tenure-track faculty hurts what universities get back in research and teaching. “If you’re worried come April or May [of] every year that you may not have a job in a few months, you can still be committed to students and teaching, but you have to keep one eye open to what you have to do to support yourself."

Regarding university research with ties to the shale gas industry,  AAUP president Rudy Fichtenbaum tells McClatchy newspaper readers, "I would certainly be very concerned about industry-funded research at academic institutions, which always has the potential for having strings attached to it. In a number of cases there's a clear conflict of interest and these corporations have a direct interest in research results that support their goals."