Tenure
Don’t Rush to Assume Politics Was Behind UNC Board’s Decision to Deny Tenure to Hannah-Jones
To the Editor: Your recent article covering the decision by the University of […]
Tenure
Intellectual Diversity
Diversity Thwarted
Intellectual diversity, that is. A new Pew Research Center study shows that those who have attended graduate school (i.e. the future professoriate) lean even farther to the left than those with only an undergraduate...
Freedom of Expression
ACTA Releases Study Outlining the Dangerous Decline of Academic Freedom on Campus
Washington, DC—The American Council of Trustees and Alumni today released “Free to Teach, Free to Learn,” a guide for trustees, on the dangerous decline of academic freedom and intellectual diversity on college campuses. The...
Costs
Budget cuts could hurt LSUS tenured professors
When it comes to budget cuts to higher education, it’s the ones that are unseen that may hurt the most. As colleges and universities received their allotment of state funding for the current fiscal...
Intellectual Diversity
P.C.U.?
Virginia Tech has been receiving some unwelcome but necessary scrutiny of late over the emphasis its college of arts and humanities has been giving to a divisive issue: diversity. The Virginia Association of Scholars,...
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Tenure
Virginia Tech Board to Review Controversial Tenure Policies
WASHINGTON, DC—The head of Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors has agreed to undertake the comprehensive review of the university’s controversial tenure and diversity policies that the American Council of Trustees and Alumni called for...
Tenure
Post-Tenure Review Needs Strengthening, ACTA Says in AAUP Magazine
WASHINGTON, DC—Writing in the current edition of Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni says that to safeguard academic freedom, the academy must strengthen...
Intellectual Diversity
Reviewing Post-Tenure Review
Ever since the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges issued the joint 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, two truths have been deemed self-evident: that academic...
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