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Although Sayre and his supporters maintain that the "publish-or-perish" question is the main issue, the college's action is also being contested on legal grounds. The argument revolves around the interpretation of the teuure rules of Tufts and of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP...
Whatever the interpretation of the Tufts rules, Sayre's dismissal violutes the 1940 Statement of Principles of the AAUP, which says that a professor who has taught more than three years at one Institution should be given permanent tenure after four years at a second school. Sayre was an instructor in philosophy at Pomona College before coming to Tufts...
...appealed his case to the AAUP and to the Advisory Committee on Faculty Personnel, a five-man board made up Tufts faculty members. The Tufts committee last week upheld the administration's decision by a 4-1 vote...
...almost certain that the AAUP will, at its next annual convention, place Mercy College under formal censure for its actions in this case. The college will then join 15 other institutions currently under official censure...
...AAUP Will Censure...