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...AAUP's statement contended that attempts to suppress views like William Shockley's are "undermining the integrity of the academic communities," but it never thought to enumerate the attempts or name any underminers--probably because there haven't been many. Angry students shouted Shockley down at Staten Island Community College last fall, but outside of that, he's been refused permission to speak only by two groups with public views much like the AAUP's, the Yale Political Union this week and the Law School Forum here last fall. Like the AAUP, these groups eloquently defended academic freedom, and like...
...wake of the June elimination of tenure at the college, and the dismissal of 13 faculty members, 11 of whom had tenure, the Bloomfield chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), has filed a civil suit which claims that the college's reasons for the removal of the tenure system are invalid...
Because tenure in a private college has not been challenged in the superior courts, both Allshouse and AAUP officials consider Bloomfield to be an important case. Allshouse said, however, that Bloomfield could not finance a long judicial process
...Faculty's action with regard to my appeal of their decision not to renew my teaching contract. Let me just add one important point that was omitted. The concept of "adequate consideration" is far from "meaningless," as Dean Kilbridge claims. It is a phrase used by the AAUP and is defined in terms of answers to the following questions: "Was the decision conscientiously arrived at? Was all available evidence bearing on the relevant performance of the candidate sought out and considered? Was there adequate deliberation by the department over the import of the evidence in the light of relevant standards...
...Under prodding, they have gone a long way to meeting the standards of due process that the AAUP suggests," Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science and a leader of last Spring's campaign against the original procedures, said yesterday. However, Mendelsohn objected to one provision of the new proposal which states that two Corporation Fellows would be invited to attend the hearings as nonvoting observers...