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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
Chapter Meeting (on Zoom), October 24, 5 pm (Meeting ID 949 6170 1522, passcode 016133)
Plan questions for the General Faculty Meeting in November, hear about our Legislator Forum planned for the spring, bring concerns or successes.
General Faculty Meeting, November 1, 3:30-5:00 pm, Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union
Join us for this meeting! It will be livestreamed, but you must be present in person to ask questions.
AAUP Social, November 1, 5:15-6:30 pm, ITAP Brewery, 308 S. 9th St.
Debrief from the General Faculty Meeting, meet new & old friends who are passionate about shared governance and academic freedom!
ICYMI
More than 30 people attended our Academic Freedom Forum, where Paul Maguffee of UM System Office of General Counsel Paul Maguffee explained some protections offered (and not offered) for instructors, and Dr. Pam Bruzina explained her role as faculty Ombudsperson. See the recording here.
Our Work in National Context
Tennessee’s 2022 anti-CRT law governing K-12 education has been expanded to higher education settings. The Tennessee Higher Education Freedom of Expression and Transparency Act allows students to charge professors with teaching “divisive concepts”. The American Historical Association, together with 150 other academic associations, including the AAUP, identified what it called “the clear goal” of the law: “to suppress teaching and learning about the role of racism in the history of the United States.” Read more here.
You may have read about departmental closings and layoffs of faculty and staff at the University of West Virginia (UWV). Gordon Gee, UWV’s president, said that the cuts in areas such as world languages, linguistics, and humanities (among others) “are essential to free up resources for programs in higher demand such as forensics, engineering and neuroscience” (Anderson, 2023). The Boston Review published an open letter by faculty, which you can read here.
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Sincerely,
Mizzou AAUP Leadership
President: Steve Karian
Vice President: Martha Kelly
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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