President’s Column: First they came for the workers… Why we cannot remain silent
by José Padín, President, AAUP-OR A quick scan of the news at American colleges and universities shows just how precarious faculty rights, shared governance, and academic freedom can be. They cannot be taken for granted. To my mind, ongoing news reports bear two clear conclusions: Where faculty lack collective bargaining rights, their tenure and academic due process rights are also weak — troublingly so. Owing to a fateful 1980 Supreme Court decision, faculty (other than adjunct faculty) at private colleges and universities lack collective bargaining rights. (See the news from Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, below). Where collective bargaining rights are…
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