The Chronicle: AAUP President Says Group’s Former Chief Weighed Courting Hugo Chávez for Funds
A former top official of the American Association of University Professors considered asking Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, to finance the purchase of a new headquarters for the organization, the AAUP’s current president, Cary Nelson, says in a new book scheduled for release early next year.
But the former AAUP administrator that Mr. Nelson says offered up the idea — Roger Bowen, who served as general secretary of the organization from July 2004 through June 2007 — today called the account in Mr. Nelson’s book “fanciful” and asserted he has no recollection of suggesting the group ask Mr. Chávez for money.
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