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The article discusses the crisis facing public higher education in the U.S. as of May 2011. A report released by the National Conference of State Legislators indicated that the tuition fee is 37-percent higher than the revenue generated by higher education. The results of a survey that was conducted by the Project on Student Debt revealed that the average student-loan debt of college seniors who graduated in 2009 amounted to 24,000 U.S. dollars. The results of the survey also indicated an increase in the unemployment rate.

This section offers news briefs on the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). At Rutgers University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, AAUP chapters are proposing that existing contingent faculty positions be converted to teaching-focused tenure-track positions. AAUP was one of the sponsors of the eighth conference of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, held from August 8 to 11, 2008. The 29th AAUP Summer Institute was held from July 24 to 27, 2008 at the University of Rhode Island's Kingston campus.

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The article features the late Alice Rossi and Maita Levine, who played integral roles in the work of the Committee W on the Status of Women in the Academic Profession at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). It mentions that the committee was reinstituted by the AAUP in 1970 after decades of inactivity. Rossi was known for her essay "Equality Between the Sexes: An Immodest Proposal." Levine was devoted to gender equality work and advocated academic collective bargaining.

The article presents information on scores of foreign citizens who have been barred from the U.S. when they sought to travel in the country to attend academic conferences, take up faculty posts, or perform other scholarly work. While the number of foreign scholars excluded is a relative handful compared to the number allowed to enter the country, it represents an alarming trend that is at odds with this nation's historic commitment to the free exchange of ideas. Sometimes the exclusions have been for overtly ideological reasons, such as the blanket exclusion of Cuban scholars seeking to attend a conference of the Latin American Studies Association. They include Cuban scholar Carlos Alzugaray Treto and Bolivian scholar Waskar Ari.

The article offers news related to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) as of March-April 2006. An adjunct faculty at Suffolk University has elected Suffolk Affiliated Faculty-AAUP as their collective bargaining representative. A poll project has been jointly sponsored by the AAUP and the Center for the Study of Democracy at Saint Mary's College of Maryland. The survey of changes in faculty retirement policies by the AAUP has received a gift from the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.

Focuses on the job opportunities for professionals in the education and social services sector. Jobs of social service workers; Important characteristics of a social service workers; Educational requirements for social services administrators.

Focuses on a report to be issued by the United Educators Insurance Risk Retention Group that provides guidance on conducting tenure evaluations in the United States. Principles of tenure decisions; Recommendations for faculty and administrators of individual institutions.

Reports on the meeting held by the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in August 2000 regarding the reformation of the intercollegiate college systems in the United States. Problems with the athletics system; Details on the recommendations of the commission concerning athletic programs in 1991; Information on the reforms initiated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

The article discusses Campus Equity Week, which was held October 28 to November 2, 2013, cosponsored by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and designed to highlight inequities on North American college campuses. Topics discussed include the insecurity of college faculty non-tenured positions and student access to high-quality education. Campus Equality Week events held at U.S. colleges including California State University, Fairfield University, and Connecticut State University are also discussed.

The article discusses the release of the revised report "Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications" by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Topics discussed include how the emergence of social media, cloud computing, and new communication devices affect electronic communications and academic freedom. The role of college faculty in governing electronic communications policies is also discussed.

The article reports that University of Oregon (UO) faculty members have formed a labor union, the United Academics of the University of Oregon, which is to be affiliated with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers.

The article reports on recommendations from the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) regarding a July 2011 release from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which proposed rules for institutional review boards (IRBs) that govern human testing for research.

The article discusses legislation voted on in Ohio on November 8, 2011, that repealed previous legislation that restricted collective bargaining rights for public-sector workers such as college faculty. The legislation would have prevented full-time college teachers from joining unions such as the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and the article discusses the aims of bargaining such as compensation debates, tenure evaluations, and restricting class sizes.

The article focuses on the findings of the report "Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments" issued by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Committee on Contingency and the Profession in 2010

The article reports on the move of the Illinois Wesleyan University to revise and strengthen its financial exigency policies, to comply with the recommendations of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Hans-Joerg Tiede, an associate professor of computer science who led the process, notes that the policy on the termination for financial exigency was not compliant with AAUP policies. He remarks that Illinois Wesleyan is not facing serious financial problems, despite budget adjustments in 2010.

The article reports on the establishment of a subcommittee to study and recommend procedural standards to ensure academic freedom in politically controversial academic personnel decisions by the Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 2009.

The article reports on a ruling issued by a superior court in the Virgin Islands affirming the eligibility of faculty at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) for collective bargaining. The ruling was welcomed by the UVI American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter. The ruling came after the chapter took the lead on several issues. Cards were signed by several faculty members authorizing the chapter to represent them in collective bargaining. A statement was issued by Pat Shaw, member of the organizing staff of the AAUP, on the positive development.

The article discusses a court case where public employers in Michigan, including colleges and universities, are prohibited from providing domestic-partner health-insurance benefits. The court was asked to interpret an amendment to the state constitution that says that one man and one woman in marriage shall be the only agreement recognized as a marriage or similar union for any purpose. An amicus brief argues that the amendment did not prohibit state universities from providing benefits to the children and domestic partners of gay faculty and staff.

The article discusses a court case where a criminal indictment was brought against Steven Kurtz, an art professor at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. The indictment, alleging mail and wire fraud, stemmed from an incident in which Robert Ferrell, a genetics researcher, mailed Kurtz biological materials for use in artwork about mid-twentieth-century germ-warfare experiments conducted by the U.S. government. The case was dismissed by a federal judge.

The article highlights the report entitled "Science and Security in a Post-9/11 Worm," which was authored by a committee of the U.S. National Research Council, part of the National Academies. The committee is requesting the Departments of Commerce and States to consider their export controls rules, which restrict the access of foreign students to technology and information. The State Department is also being urged to improve visa process for foreign students and scholars. According to the report, attracting foreign students to the country determines the success of U.S. science and technology programs.

The article reports on the contract agreement reached by the Faculty at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) with the administration in April 2007. Salary increases and health insurance premiums had been major sticking points in the negotiations between the administration and the local AAUP chapter, which represents EMU faculty in collective bargaining. The administration agreed to establish a benefits committee, with four members of its choice and four picked by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter, to educate the university community about and issue yearly reports to the AAUP chapter and the administration on the impact of the new law.

The article focuses on a ruling on the labor practice of the administration of Michigan Technological University (MTU) in Houghton. A Michigan judge ruled that the administration engaged in an unfair labor practice when it unilaterally allocated selective salary increases to faculty in 2005 to 2006 rather than bargain over these increases with the campus American Association of University Professors chapter, which is the collective bargaining agent for tenured and tenure-track faculty at MTU. The judge said that the university's decision to provide salary increases while the two parties were in the middle of negotiations undermined the union with its members, and ordered the administration to return to the bargaining table and to post a notice to employees announcing the return.

This article highlights the events at the Seventh Conference on Contingent Academic Labor which was held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia in August 2006. The conference brings together contingent faculty activists and others interested in improving job security, compensation, academic freedom protections, and professional-development resources for part- and full-time professors who are off the tenure track. About 200 people participated in the conference, which focused on academic freedom, the casualization and globalization of labor, and organizing strategies.

This article reports that the Latin America Working Group issued the report, Retreat from Reason: U.S.-Cuban Academic Relations and the Bush Administration, in September 2006, analyzing the Cuban policies of the current and former administrations. The group, consists of academics in the U.S. and Cuba, is sharply critical of these policies. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has endorsed the report's recommendations. Academic exchange is vital to preserving U.S. national security; it demonstrates to scholars everywhere that Americans welcome the opportunity to engage all ideas, even if only in order to rebut certain ideas and challenge others, says AAUP general secretary Roger Bowen.

This article reports on the resignation of a third of the full-time faculty at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia, after a dispute over academic freedom. The college, which focuses on preparing graduates for political careers, had prided itself on combining Christian education with a classic liberal arts curriculum. But the departing faculty members questioned Patrick Henry's commitment to liberal education, citing several incidents, such as the decision of the college's president and founder Michael Farris to threaten to cancel a public lecture on St. Augustine unless charged professor M. Todd Bates revised it to incorporate more references to the Bible.

The article reports on the appointment of Ann Springer for the position of counsel on the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) staff in the spring of 2006. As counsel, Springer directs the legal office of the AAUP, which advises college and university faculty, administrators, lawyers, and others on higher education legal issues, prepares amicus briefs oil issues of interest to the Association, monitors legal developments in higher education around the country, and keeps the Association apprised of new and emerging legal issues that may have implications in areas such as labor and employment law, freedom of expression, and intellectual property rights.

The article reports on the decision of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Joint Terrorism Task Force to visit Pomona College professor of history Miguel Tinker-Salas in March 2006 to question him about his classes. The law enforcement officials also questioned Tinker-Salas whether the Venezuelan government or its embassy in Washington had tried to influence his views. They also questioned several students waiting outside his office to meet the professor, asking about the content of Tinker-Salas' classes and what they thought of his teaching.

This article reports that the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has filed an amicus brief before the Colorado Court of Appeals in the case, Saxe v. Board of Trustees of Metropolitan State College of Denver. The case arises from the unilateral adoption of a new faculty handbook in 2003 by the college's board of trustees. The AAUP amicus brief, written by Robert Gorman, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, argues that the faculty handbook changes imposed by the college's board abrogated the rights inhering in tenure during retrenchment, and that new handbook provisions governing retrenchment failed to afford protections of academic due process to affected faculty members.

This article deals with the testimony given by Galya Diment, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Washington, in February 2006 at a meeting of the U.S. Department of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. His testimony, which was given on behalf of the American Association of University Professors, emphasized the importance of increasing access to higher education, sustaining its quality, promoting diversity among students and faculty as well as among types of institutions, and supporting the openness of the academic community. Diment pointed out that access to higher education currently is being undermined by federal student-aid cuts.