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SOURCE: American Historical Association
4/8/2021
AHA Issues Letter Regarding Proposed Termination of Tenured Faculty Members at Salem State University (April 2021)
The AHA urges Salem State (MA) University to reconsider an announced plan to terminate four tenured faculty positions in its history department in a public letter addressed to President John Keenan and Provost David Silva.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/11/2021
Tenure’s Broken Promise
The tenure system was established during historically flush times in higher ed, says historian John R. Thelin. Budgetary, ideological, and political changes affecting higher ed are calling into question whether academic work needs a different system.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/8/2021
Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard After Tenure Dispute
Dr. West’s dispute over tenure put a new focus on complaints that Black and Latino professors are underrepresented in the ranks of tenured professors, not just at Harvard.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/4/2021
Irreplaceable: Illinois Supreme Court Says Community Colleges Can't Lay Off Faculty and Replace with Adjuncts
“To say that someone isn’t capable of earning seniority and therefore they don’t fall within the definition of someone who has less seniority doesn’t really make sense.”
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
12/4/2020
‘Never Waste a Good Pandemic’
"Robert J. Ferry, associate professor of history and chair of Boulder’s Faculty Assembly, said that he hadn’t been involved in any discussions about the proposal thus far but that future consideration 'needs to have full involvement of the faculty'."
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
12/6/2020
Hit by COVID-19, Colleges Do the Unthinkable and Cut Tenure
College administrators have invoked financial exigency to make radical revisions to the tenure protections enjoyed by faculty and diminish the faculty role in campus governance. The American Association of University Professors calls it a crisis.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/29/2020
Pandemic Imperils Promotions for Women in Academia
As primary education has gone remote for another term, women professors with children argue that uneven distribution of domestic labor means their scholarly work is at a disadvantage compared to male and childless colleagues. "“I don’t need a clock extension,” Dr. Magdalena Osburn said. “I need an acknowledgment that this year is trash.”
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Educationn
9/10/2020
This Tenured Professor Said His College’s Reopening Plans Risked Deaths. That’s Now in His Personnel File.
A Pennsylvania history professor's criticism of his college's reopening plans drew a reprimand and potential censure by the administration. What are the limits of professors' freedom to criticize administrative decisions?
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/28/19
What Tenured Faculty Could Do, if They Cared About Adjuncts
by Herb Childress
Here are 11 things they can do right now that would make a difference.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
5/24/19
A Donor's Demands, a Revoked Chair
A religion professor at the American University in Cairo says the university had no right to revoke his chair title after he resisted a donor's demands that he teach Islam in a preferential manner.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
5/15/19
Tenure, Twitter and Taking Her Board to Task
Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
3/15/19
Who’s the snowflake? We tenured professors, that’s who
by Anita Bernstein
Our freedom to say what we want is not only tolerated but celebrated.
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SOURCE: American Historical Association
6-11-15
Historians join other scholars in defending tenure and academic freedom in Wisconsin
The American Historical Association has joined with 21 other scholarly societies in a statement protesting proposed changes to the structure of the University of Wisconsin system that threaten to undermine tenure, shared governance, and academic freedom in Wisconsin.
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2-24-14
The Highest-Paid University President Makes 170 Times More than the Average Adjunct
by Lawrence S. Wittner
An adjunct teaching a full-time load makes roughly $20,000. Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, makes $3.4 million.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10-25-13
From Welfare to the Tenure Track
by Stacey Patton
The story of medievalist Melissa Bruninga-Matteau.
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