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...weeks ago, the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), a group of academic publishers, sent a letter to Google claiming that the search engine’s project involved a “systematic copyright infringement on a massive scale...
...This large-scale infringement has the potential for serious financial damage to the members of the AAUP,” read the organization’s letter, written by its executive director, Peter Givler...
...Overall, it does show that there has been some progress, but that the progress has been quite slow in women reaching the most senior ranks of faculty,” said John W. Curtis, head of research at AAUP...
...report also found an increase in the numbers of “contingent faculty”— non-tenure track full- or part-time professors. Recent data were not available, but AAUP used data from the U.S. Department of Education showing that, as of the fall of 2001, nearly two-thirds of all faculty were not tenured...
...AAUP expressed concerns about the “threat to academic freedom that arises when such a large proportion of the professoriate holds positions that do not provide the security of tenure against dismissal on the basis of controversial teaching or research,” according to the report...