Category: Academic Freedom
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SU-AAUP condemns assault on free speech, suggests caution
Published in The Daily Orange, September 29, 2025: https://dailyorange.com/2025/09/letter-to-the-editor-aaup-condemns-assault-on-free-speech-suggests-caution/ To the campus community, In the wake of the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, we’ve seen faculty and students across the nation punished for exercising their rights to free speech on social media. The Executive Committee of the Syracuse University Chapter of the AAUP condemns these…
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Letter to the Chancellor on academic freedom and free expression at SU
December 11, 2024 Dear Chancellor Syverud, We, the executive committee of Syracuse University’s chapter of the AAUP, write to share some of our thoughts and concerns about the future of academic freedom and freedom of expression here at SU, particularly as relates to the impending political shift to the right across all branches of the…
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New Policies with no faculty input
“Updated” policies have just been rolled out on posting, events and demonstration on campus (links below). They are long, and in legalese. They had no faculty input, but they will impact on us all. You may also want to review the recent AAUP statement denouncing restrictive administrative policies: https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-condemns-wave-administrative-policies-intended-crack-down-peaceful-campus-protest
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FALL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
Our upcoming member meeting, October 16, 4-5:30pm and October 17, 4-5:30pm, on Zoom (to accommodate different teaching schedules) will provide focused attention to the Faculty Manual section on “Academic Freedom” (see https://academicaffairs.syracuse.edu/faculty-affairs/policies-and-procedures/faculty-manual/3-51-academic-freedom/) and the “Syracuse Statement,” (see here) with an eye to making a plan to establish the protections that WE would like to see…
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All full-time faculty deserve a path to tenure
Letter to the Editor, published in The Daily Orange March 7, 2024https://dailyorange.com/2024/03/all-full-time-faculty-deserve-a-path-to-tenure/ Earlier this year, a few non-tenure track full-time teaching faculty in Syracuse University’s School of Architecture were told their contracts will not be renewed next academic year. It was striking evidence of the precarity of many instructional faculty at SU and across the…
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