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Berkeley to Review Police Response to Protests

Posted on November 24, 2009 by | Comments Off on Berkeley to Review Police Response to Protests

The Chronicle: Berkeley to Review Police Response to Protests

The University of California at Berkeley announced on Monday that it would review police actions during a large protest on Friday, responding to accusations that the police used unnecessary force in trying to control a crowd that had gathered outside a main academic building, Wheeler Hall, to assail a 32-percent tuition increase approved last week by the Board of Regents amid widespread protests that culminated in arrests. “Any tactics to exercise crowd control on campus must provide a safe platform for expression of free speech and freedom of assembly, and we expect that, as a result of this review, modifications will be made,” the university said in a written statement.

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AAUP Investigation at San Francisco Art Institute

Posted on October 26, 2009 by | Comments Off on AAUP Investigation at San Francisco Art Institute

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

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Illinois: Investigation clears COD faculty association

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Daily Herald: Investigation clears COD faculty association

An internal investigation has determined the College of DuPage faculty association did not misuse college resources by listing its campus office as the address for its political action committee.

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Academic association to probe UTMB layoffs

Posted on June 15, 2009 by | Comments Off on Academic association to probe UTMB layoffs

The Daily News: Academic association to probe UTMB layoffs

GALVESTON — A committee appointed by the American Association of University Professors will travel to Galveston and Austin this summer to investigate whether the University of Texas Medical Branch used Hurricane Ike as a handy excuse to thin out tenured faculty.

“We don’t launch an investigation lightly,” said Eric Combest, associate secretary in the Department of Academic Freedom and Tenure of the 94-year-old organization based in Washington, D.C.

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