Faculty involvement in Provost search
We urge [SU leadership] to reconsider your plan and follow established procedures for the appointment rather than merely soliciting comments. … Read More Faculty involvement in Provost search
Tag: Academic Freedom
Faculty Control over the Curriculum: a listening session
DEI listening session on Friday, August 29, 11am-12:30pm… Read More Faculty Control over the Curriculum: a listening session
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… Read More FALL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
The AAUP stands with SU students’ right to protest
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
Syracuse University AAUP Statement on Patterns of Administrative Attacks on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech
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
SU AAUP Chapter Statement on Academic Freedom and Outside Speakers
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
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