1. 🧵 Tomorrow, the @BORUSG is expected to vote to end tenure for Georgia's public universities. The AAUP has warned that this move will destroy protections for academic freedom, which is indispensable for the quality of teaching and research in higher education.
2. if the board votes to approve the changes, tenure & the academic freedom it is designed to protect will be severely compromised at the 25 tenure-granting institutions in the system. Given the severity & scope of this attack on tenure and academic freedom, AAUP will respond…
by taking action similar to the 1974 investigation & censure of the governing board of the Virginia Community College System for abolishing tenure. In service of the common good, tenure allows faculty members to pursue research & innovation & to draw evidence-based conclusions…
…free from corporate, religious, or political pressure. The @BORUSG-proposed policy unlinks a procedure for academic due process from post-tenure review, thereby undermining tenure and #academicfreedom.
They leave us no choice but to act. At reputable institutions of higher education, #academicfreedom is protected because tenured professors can be dismissed only for reasons related to professional fitness & only after a hearing before a faculty body…
at which the admin must make its case that the faculty member's conduct/performance warrants dismissal.
If passed, the @BORUSG’s policy undermines the #academicfreedom that the AAUP exists to protect & the very standards that maintain quality in education in this country.
If passed, the @BORUSG’s policy undermines the #academicfreedom that the AAUP exists to protect & the very standards that maintain quality in education in this country.
For further insight, please see the AAUP’s Sept 24 letter to the Georgia AAUP state conference regarding @BORUSG’s proposed changes to post-tenure review:
drive.google.com/file/d/1QprREo…
#academicfreedom
drive.google.com/file/d/1QprREo…
#academicfreedom
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