Institutional Review Boards and Social Science Research
Report addressing the government’s rules for protecting human beings who are the subjects of social science research. It offers suggestions for the improvement of IRB practices and recommendations.
View ArticleNonreappointment & Full-Time Renewable Term Appointments
Report addressing the applicability of the Standards for Notice of Nonreappointment to all full-time faculty members on renewable term appointments.
View ArticleContingent Appointments and the Academic Profession
Report examining the costs to academic freedom incurred by the current trend toward overreliance on part and full-time non-tenure-track faculty. The report recommends that for the good of...
View ArticleStatement of Principles on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work
Statement addressing some of the current issues facing faculty members as they seek to integrate family obligations and academic work. It recommends principles and guidelines for formulating...
View ArticleStatement on Procedural Standards in the Renewal or Nonrenewal of Faculty...
Statement addressing procedures bearing on the renewal or nonrenewal of probationary appointments.
View ArticleOn Collegiality as a Criterion for Faculty Evaluation
Report addressing the increasing tendency to add the criterion of “collegiality” to faculty evaluations and enumerates why this practice should be discouraged.
View ArticleRecommended Institutional Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure
Regulations outlining recommended institutional processes that enable institutions to protect academic freedom, tenure, and to ensure academic due process.
View ArticleAcademic Freedom and Tenure: University of the Cumberlands
Report dealing with resignation, dismissal, and academic freedom at Cumberland College, a religiously affiliated institution.
View ArticleAcademic Freedom and Tenure: Benedict College
Report dealing with academic freedom, tenure, and administration-directed grade changes at Benedict College.
View ArticleAcademic Freedom and Tenure: Meharry Medical College
Report dealing with issues of faculty with primarily clinical duties financial exigency, due process, academic freedom,tenure, and faculty government at Meharry Medical College, one of four...
View ArticleAcademic Freedom and Tenure: City University of New York
Report discussing the decision made by the central administration of the City University of New York and deals with the issues of academic freedom, due process, collective bargaining, and national...
View ArticleFinancial Exigency, Academic Governance, and Related Matters
Report discussing AAUP policies concerning the role of the faculty in budgeting in good times and when an institution must deal with a financial crisis.
View ArticleAcademic Bill of Rights
Report discussing the Academic Bill of Rights at its potential impact on academic freedom.
View ArticleOn Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes
Statement addressing campus speech codes and advises consideration of means more compatible with the mission of an academic institution by which to deal with incivility, intolerance, offensive speech,...
View ArticleAcademic Freedom and Outside Speakers
Statement examining the right of students and faculty to hear outside speakers.
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