It's time to detail the laughable and sad response from the @BORUSG University System of Georgia to today's news concerning @AAUP report about #tenure. We are rolling toward a censure vote. #highered 1/x
https://twitter.com/AAUP/status/1468610891092574214
The USG response is a Dec. 3 letter from the system chancellor to the AAUP after the AAUP sent the system a draft of the report that came out today. The report and quotes from the letter are available here 2/x aaup.org/report/academi…
As the report makes clear, the @BORUSG is redefining tenure and academic due process to justify what its oversees the Board of Regents did in gutting tenure. In short, gaslighting. 3/x
The most laughable moment in USG's letter is where tenure is claimed as "bedrock" of #highered but its synonym "academic due process" is defined by elements outside of #highered. In short, Georgia is no longer running a higher education system, but by implication, a business. 3/x 
The elements above are not what has traditionally been known in #highered as academic due process: a faculty-led process from start to finish. The USG thinks faculty are "best subset to review" other faculty. And yet at the most important moment, it erases that. 4/x
The question is why. Why does the USG not want a peer-led hearing to decide if a professor should be fired or lose tenure for not doing their job? Why does the USG not want peers judging peers? 5/x
What is most absurd is the USG then says it wants this new tenure-gutted process to mirror what was in place before: 6/x
The absurd part is new local, campus policies have to be approved by the USG. Is the USG going to approve a termination hearing for a professor facing that? If so, why did we go thru all this change? In short, this begs the question of the USG v Board of Regents. 7/x
In my opinion, the USG does care about a possible censure and the wide ramifications of that. I don't think the Regents care. And so the USG is stuck trying to put lipstick on a pig. And they find justification for BOR actions in anti-higher ed and anti-tenure rationales. 8/x
After gutting tenure, after disregarding principles and ideals it has always honored [and says it still does], the USG says "trust us." "Guidelines" are coming, they insist. We have no reason to trust the USG just as the BOR lost moral authority during Covid. 9/x
The USG is the first system to end tenure like this. It deserves censure from the century-old group that protects tenure. I hope a new USG chancellor will recognize the problem. In the end, the regents dealt a body blow to their system's rep and only they can undo that. /end
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