Published in the Daily Orange May 1, 2024 Syracuse University’s AAUP Executive Committee supports and defends students’ rights to free speech, free assembly and free expression in creating a peaceful Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the Shaw Quadrangle at SU. We realize that members of our university have varying positions on the wider issues in the… Read More The AAUP stands with SU students’ right to protest
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… Read More All full-time faculty deserve a path to tenure
Dec 7, 20223 We write again to express our concern with the Administration’s failure to protect academic freedom and freedom of speech as demonstrated in the campus-wide email on November 9, 2023 from Provost Ritter and Chief Student Experience Officer Allen Groves, in which they rebuked a student speaker at a peaceful rally who argued… Read More Syracuse University AAUP Statement on Patterns of Administrative Attacks on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech
NOV 17, 2023The Syracuse University’s AAUP Chapter endorses the position of the AAUP National’s Committee A Statement on “Academic Freedom and Outside Speakers” (2007), which indicates that universities must make every effort to honor the opportunity for campus groups to invite speakers and not cancel these events due to claims about the inability to provide… Read More SU AAUP Chapter Statement on Academic Freedom and Outside Speakers
Academic Freedom in Times of Crisis: An Open DialogueTuesday November 7 3:00-4:30Via Zoom (register here) We will give a brief overview of the AAUP principles of academic freedom, but will devote most of our time to hear from faculty about their experiences and concerns on this issue. We hope to strategize together on how we can protect… Read More ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN TIMES OF CRISIS: An Open Dialogue
Published on November 5, 2023 in The Daily Orange Note: This statement expresses the views of the Executive Committee of the SU AAUP chapter only and was not voted on by membership. Last week the Executive Committee of the Syracuse University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors at Syracuse University circulated a national… Read More Executive Committee of SU AAUP calls for greater academic freedom from administration amid Israel-Hamas war
reposting from: https://www.aaup.org/news/academic-freedom-times-war It is in tumultuous times that colleges’ and universities’ stated commitments to protect academic freedom are most put to the test. As the Israel-Hamas war rages and campus protests proliferate, institutional authorities must refrain from sanctioning faculty members for expressing politically controversial views and should instead defend their right, under principles of… Read More Academic Freedom in Times of War
Over the past 20 years Syracuse University has increasingly relied on non-tenure-line faculty,such as Teaching Professors, Professors of Practice, Research Faculty and other Full TimeNon-Tenure Track Faculty (FTNTTF) to ensure delivery of the university’s education mission.According to the latest Faculty Census conducted by the Syracuse University Senate, only50.1% of faculty are tenured or on the… Read More SU-AAUP Position Statement on Teaching Professors, Professors of Practice, Research Professors and other Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty
October 24: 3-4:40 PM, 160 Link Hall
October 17 at 5 pm, 548 C Library Faculty commons
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