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Welcome to the Monthly AAUP Newsletter!
If you have an announcement you’d like to be included in this newsletter, please send it to aaup.mizzou@gmail.com.
Upcoming in our AAUP Chapter
Advocacy Day at the Capitol in Jeff City will be Thursday March 6, 10 am to 2 pm! Join our group to discuss legislation related to higher education and to share information about academic freedom with lawmakers. Contact Steve Karian if you are interested in attending.
General Faculty Meeting Tuesday March 18 at 3:30 pm, focused on academic freedom and co-planned by AAUP, followed by social at ITAP.
If you are a dues-paying member of AAUP, please vote to confirm a new slate of officers for AAUP for 2025-2028 using this Qualtrics form. Steve Karian will continue as President, Noel Kopriva as Vice President, Jenny Bossaller as Secretary, and Jim Van Dyke as Treasurer.
ICYMI
At our Chapter Meeting in February, we planned what topics to bring up at the April General Faculty Meeting, as well as questions to ask at our ongoing meetings with the Provost. Faculty were concerned about how the federal funding freeze and restrictions on DEI-related words that can be no longer be used in federal grants will affect tenure and promotion requirements as well as research and teaching more broadly; there were also concerns raised about ICE interacting with students, faculty, or staff on campus, and student and work visas.
MU is party to a lawsuit through the APLU challenging the 15% cap on indirect costs on NIH grants.
Please see attached a statement on academic freedom quoting from the CRRs, from Mizzou AAUP President Steve Karian.
Our Work in National Context
AAUP President: DOE's Office of Civil Rights Has Declared War on American Civil Rights in Education
Meanwhile, in Kansas…”A University’s Top Lawyer Is Behind a Bill to Weaken Tenure. The University Had No Idea.”
Please see the attached memo by experts in anti-discrimination law on on why many DEI programs at the university level are defensible
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Sincerely,
Mizzou AAUP Leadership
President: Steve Karian
Vice President: [currently vacant]
Secretary: Rose Metro
Treasurer: Jim Van Dyke
Executive Committee: Jenny Bossaller, Sam Cohen, Noah Heringman, Seth Howes, Rabia Gregory, Ted Koditschek, Noel Kopriva, Chuck Munter, Charles Nilon, Srirupa Prasad, Carol Ward
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