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...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...
...procedures conform more closely to recommendations put forth by the Association of American University Professors (AAUP...
...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...
...Brandeis faculty senate and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) met with the school's administration last week to discuss the method of distribution for possible cutbacks...
Some faculty members had suggested that the cutbacks violated the by-laws of the AAUP, but Diamandopoulus said, "nothing that drastic has happened or is about to happen...