Faculty dismissals at Collin College under review by national professors’ association
Faculty dismissals at Collin College under review by national professors’ association
School faces scrutiny after pushing out three professors critical of the administration’s handling of COVID-19 and free speech
The American Association of University Professors is reviewing concerns about free speech at Collin College after the school dismissed professors who criticized the administration. The association is assembling a committee that will look into the dismissal and non-renewal of contracts for two faculty members and determine whether the school violated the association’s standards and principles.(Louis DeLuca / Staff Photographer)
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Gregory Cushman, an associate professor of environmental history at the University of Kansas, marched with faculty and students on Tuesday night to raise awareness about potential damage of administration plans to downsize the staff and eliminate degree programs to address budget problems.
Faculty and students at the University of Kansas stood in shadows of Allen Fieldhouse to blow the whistle Tuesday night on the administration’s plan to deal with massive budget problems by shedding tenured professors from the payroll, undervaluing work of graduate teaching assistants and jettisoning degree programs.
In Kansas, it just got easier to fire tenured professors at public universities.
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This week we got a new president and vice president. While you were distracted by the presidential inauguration, or giggling at the storm of memes of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, something else happened.
On Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents voted to create a process through which the state s six public universities can quickly fire and suspend workers, including tenured faculty members.
Why? Regent Shane Bangerter said the extreme process is imperative, given how the coronavirus pandemic has wrecked the state s higher-education finances. It s a temporary move with a December 2022 end date.
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