The Chronicle News Blog: AAUP Weighs In on Dispute Over Professor’s E-Mail at Rensselaer Polytechnic
In early July, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute pulled the plug on Donald Steiner’s e-mail account. Now the American Association of University Professors wants the university to reconnect the retired professor of nuclear engineering and engineering physics to the e-mail system.
The flap over the disconnected e-mail is the latest flashpoint in a continuing war between the administration and professors over faculty governance at Rensselaer. The provost, Robert E. Palazzo, shut down the institute’s Faculty Senate in September 2007, citing concerns about its possible interference in a review of university governance. The faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of restoring the Faculty Senate shortly afterward.
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