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Under Scrutiny, Official at SUNY Resigns

Posted on June 6, 2011 by | Comments Off on Under Scrutiny, Official at SUNY Resigns

The New York Times: Under Scrutiny, Official at State University Resigns

A top official at the State University of New York accused of giving a no-show job to the daughter of the former Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, has resigned amid mounting scrutiny of his conduct.

The university’s board of trustees voted unanimously at a meeting on Friday to accept the resignation of the official, John J. O’Connor, the secretary and a senior vice chancellor of the university system and the president of its research foundation.

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AAUP Will Investigate Firing at LSU

Posted on April 6, 2010 by | Comments Off on AAUP Will Investigate Firing at LSU

Inside Higher Ed: AAUP Will Investigate Firing at LSU

The American Association of University Professors on Monday announced that it is beginning a formal investigation into the case of Ivor van Heerden, who was a leading whistle blower in the analysis of what went wrong after Katrina hit New Orleans, and who is suing Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, charging that he was fired from his position at the university’s hurricane research center because of anger over his criticisms of the Army Corps of Engineers. The university, while declining to discuss details about the case, has denied that he lost his job for that reason.

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AUUP investigates Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Posted on December 23, 2009 by | Comments Off on AUUP investigates Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

AAUP: Investigation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The AAUP general secretary has authorized an investigation into key issues of shared governance at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The investigation, which will be carried out by a committee of AAUP members with no previous involvement in the situation, will focus on issues of concern surrounding the ongoing suspension of Rensselaer’s faculty senate. (12/18)

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University of Miami to investigate police misconduct allegations

Posted on September 7, 2009 by | Comments Off on University of Miami to investigate police misconduct allegations

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A UM police officer points a gun at Jordan Chusid, a junior political science major who had just transferred from the University of Central Florida. Chusid said he was talking on his cellphone and walking to the parking lot after a Spanish class.

Miami Herald: University of Miami to investigate police misconduct allegations

University of Miami officials opened an investigation into the actions of campus police officers who questioned a UM student at gunpoint over a stolen motorcycle that turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.

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California: CSU fund management questioned

Posted on July 13, 2009 by | Comments Off on California: CSU fund management questioned

Times-Herald: CSU fund management questioned

Concerned that California State University foundations may be mismanaged, a state faculty union has urged Attorney General Jerry Brown to launch an investigation.

“The 23,000 members of the California Faculty Association have serious concerns about whether or not the CSU’s various foundations are conforming to proper fiduciary responsibility under state and federal law,” union president Lillian Taiz wrote in a letter this week to Brown.

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AAUP Plans to Investigate Clark Atlanta U. Over Faculty Layoffs

Posted on May 12, 2009 by | Comments Off on AAUP Plans to Investigate Clark Atlanta U. Over Faculty Layoffs

The Chronicle: AAUP Plans to Investigate Clark Atlanta U. Over Faculty Layoffs

The American Association of University Professors today informed Clark Atlanta University of plans to investigate the university over its dismissal of 70 full-time faculty members in February.

In a letter to Clark Atlanta’s president, Carlton E. Brown, the associate secretary of the AAUP, B. Robert Kreiser, wrote that the institution’s “massive dismissals of faculty” raised “key issues of academic freedom, tenure, and due process” that remain unresolved after two months of communications with the university. Accordingly, Mr. Kreiser said, the AAUP plans to establish an investigative panel to determine whether the association’s committee on academic freedom and tenure needs to take action against the university.

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Feds probing Emory, professor on research grants

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Feds probing Emory, professor on research grants

Federal officials are investigating Emory University and one of its prominent researchers to determine if either misled government agencies about the psychiatrist’s high-paying work with drug companies, officials said.

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, who pressed for the investigation, sent a letter Tuesday to the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services outlining his concerns. He said Dr. Charles Nemeroff, an internationaly prominent psychiatrist, may have violated conflict of interest rules surrounding several grants that Emory received from the National Institutes of Health. Grassley’s letter also noted that Emory is required to report such conflicts to the NIH.

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