The American Association of University Professorsvoted todayto censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the state’s flagship university. Censure is a means of informing the academic community worldwide that the administration of an institution “has not adhered to generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure.”
The AAUP's report is available HERE.
AAUP also voted to censure three other schools — M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas; University of Southern Maine; andFelicianCollege in New Jersey.
The U. of I. was censured due to its treatment ofSteven Salaita, who was offered and had accepted a tenured professorship at the U. of I. in 2014 when the job offer was withdrawn toSalaita'ssocial media posts. He has since sued the university, and has so far rebuffed the school's efforts to reach a financial settlement.
There are 55 other institutions currently under censure. The full list is available HERE.
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