Thread by @AAUP

🧵: The executive director of the AAUP has authorized an investigation of the @BORUSG regarding their adoption of a post-tenure review policy that makes it possible to release a tenured faculty member without a dismissal hearing. /1

Prior to the @BORUSG’s vote, AAUP president Irene Mulvey characterized the board’s potential action as “an attack on tenure and #academicfreedom” & warned that, if the board acted to decouple tenure protections from post-tenure review, the AAUP would investigate. /2

The purpose of tenure is to protect #academicfreedom indispensable for the quality of teaching/research in higher ed. In order to ensure that dismissals are not based on considerations that violate this, most colleges/universities require admins to demonstrate adequate cause…
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The @BORUSG’s newly adopted post-tenure review policy undermines tenure & the #academicfreedom it safeguards shifting the burden of proof from an institution’s administration (to show cause for dismissal) to the individual faculty member to show cause for being retained /4

The AAUP will conduct the inquiry & prepare a report on the findings. The AAUP’s governing Council will then vote on whether to add the USG to the Association’s list of censured administrations. For more about AAUP censure, see aaup.org/issues/academi… /5 End.