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...level jurisdiction and power. Many of the controversial parts of the bill--portions which advocate Department of Education control over Head Start, child nutrition and American Indian education programs, for example--were eliminated from this year's version. Alfred Sumberg, executive director of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) says the legislation is "not watered down, but realistic in terms of what's possible." Nevertheless, lobbying on the bills has been intense and a great deal of money and manpower--$1.4 billion in programs, 16,000 employees--is at stake. More than a simple victory (or defeat) for Carter...
...AAUP officer who is a tenured professor at B.U. and asked to remain unidentified, said yesterday the faculty intended to postpone classes starting April 4 if bargaining did not proceed...
About 40 per cent of the 850-member B.U. faculty belongs to the AAUP. The majority of the members are tenured professors, according to AAUP figures...
More non-tenured faculty would belong to the union but they fear that joining would hurt their chances of being granted tenure, a B.U. assistant professor who asked to remain unidentified, said yesterday. "Some departments explicitly state that AAUP membership is considered a black blot on your record," he added...
Detlev Vagts '49, professor of Law and former president of Harvard's AAUP chapter said about half of the more than 400-member Faculty belong to the AAUP, but they have never felt the need for collective bargaining because of Harvard's system of de-centralized administration...