AAUP Investigation at San Francisco Art Institute

by E Wayne Ross on October 26, 2009

AAUP Investigation at San Francisco Art Institute

The AAUP’s general secretary has authorized an investigation into issues of academic freedom, tenure, and due process posed by the release of numerous tenured professors on grounds of financial exigency at the art institute.

The members of an investigating committee are faculty members who have had no previous involvement in the case. The committee will visit the institution where the event(s) under investigation occurred, meet with the principal parties, and prepare a report for submission to the AAUP’s national Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. The investigating committee’s draft report will recount the facts of the case, and sets forth conclusions as to whether the actions of the administration were in procedural and substantive compliance with the principles and standards supported by the Associatio