Inside Higher Ed: A Flood of Censure
The American Association of University Professors placed six colleges and universities on its censure list Saturday — more colleges than have been censured the same year in at least a decade.
Four of the institutions were censured for violations of faculty rights in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. These four are Loyola University New Orleans, Southern University at New Orleans, Tulane University and the University of New Orleans. Those four universities were among five that the AAUP studied in depth as part of a special investigation of the way faculty members were treated as institutions dealt with the hurricane’s aftermath. While a report last month on those five also criticized the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center for violations of faculty rights, AAUP leaders said that they had been impressed with recent commitments made by that institution’s administrators, and so no censure vote was taken against LSU.
Two other institutions — Bastyr University and Our Lady of Holy Cross College — were censured for the way faculty members lost their jobs. And two universities, New Mexico Highlands and Tiffin Universities, were removed from the censure list, based on recent actions taken by new administrations to remedy problems identified by the AAUP.
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