Upcoming Meeting: Thursday, October 25, 2018, 3:30-4:30
Room: Tribble A108
Agenda:
- Approval of minutes of last meeting (see attachment).
- Follow-up on Faculty Salaries.
- Discussion of Faculty Workload: Lower-Division Advising.
- New Business.
Food for thought…
Our mission is to promote and uphold AAUP principles on faculty rights and responsibilities, particularly the principles of shared governance and academic freedom.
We are committed to assisting pre-tenure, untenured and non-permanent faculty with problems or questions you may encounter related to your appointment.
Announcements:
All are invited to “Academic Freedom Day” to be held Thursday, Nov. 8 and Friday, Nov. 9 at Chapel Hill. The conference features talks about important issues relating to academic freedom and our profession. See the program, below.
This event will also be the occasion for the relaunching of UNC-Chapel Hill’s AAUP chapter.
ACADEMIC FREEDOM DAY: NOV. 8 (evening); Nov. 9th (daytime).
The event is free, including LUNCH.
Please RSVP for lunch via email so we know how much food to order:
skleinman1@nc.rr.com
All events take place at Hyde Hall, Institute for the Arts & Humanities, UNC, Chapel Hill
NOV. 8th, THURSDAY, 5:30-7p.m.
Joan W. Scott (Prof. Emerita, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Academic Freedom Under Attack: How Do We Respond?
NOV. 9th, FRIDAY, 9:30-4:30
9:30-10:30 “As Goes the Law School…So Goes the Campus”
Gene R. Nichol, School of Law (UNC CH); Erika K. Wilson, School of Law (UNC-CH); Mark
Dorosin, Julius L. Chambers Center for Civil Rights
10:45-11:45: “Freedom for Fixed Term Faculty?”
Elyse Crystall, English & Comparative Literature (UNC-CH); Sandy C. Smith Nonini,
Anthropology (UNC-CH); Sarah A. Birken, Health Policy and Management (UNC-CH)
11:45-12:30 LUNCH (free)
12:45-1:45 "Threats to Academic Freedom from Inside and Out"
Sherryl Kleinman, Sociology (UNC-CH); Michael Behrent, History (Appalachian State
University)
2-3 “The Campus Origins of Today’s Radical Right & the Crisis of Democracy”
Nancy MacLean, History (Duke)
3:15-4:30 “Going Forward: Re-launching an AAUP Chapter at UNC, Chapel Hill”
Discussion led by Erik Gellman (History, UNC-CH); Jay Smith (History, UNC-CH)
News from the National AAUP:
Universities have become increasingly corporatized, and the significant expansion of university administration has seriously eroded faculty authority to control or make effective recommendations about university policy.
Institutional changes over the past few decades have led to increased top-down management of the university by the growing ranks of administrators, as well as the rapid expansion of non-tenure track faculty positions [see the most recent data in the chart, below]. The result has been a system wherein rather than relying on faculty expertise, growing ranks of administrators increasingly make unilateral decisions on university policies and programs, often influenced by considerations of external market forces and revenue generation.
How does WFU, an R2 school, stack up?
Type No. Percent of Total
Tenured 330 43%
Tenure track 84 11%
Non-tenure track 165 21%
Part-time 197 25%
Graduate Employees 0 0%
Total Individual Reynolda
Campus Faculty 776
(Fall 2017. Sources: 2017-18 Factbook; Provost Rogan Kersh; Institutional Research)
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matters of tenure and promotion. Please support the work of the AAUP by joining
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