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April issue of Faculty Advocate now online |
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by David Brodsky
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08 May 2002
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The April 2002 issue of The Faculty Advocate, newsletter of the AAUP chapter at UMKC, is now online. Its address is: http://iml.umkc.edu/aaup/facadv8.htm |
This is a special double issue responding to mounting crises, primarily threats to academic freedom and faculty governance.
Pat Brodsky recounts the Missouri Legislature attack on Harris Mirkin's research and the crude local media bias in favor of the right-wing point of view. With a few notable exceptions, by generally refusing to print or broadcast them, local media denied wide distribution to numerous statements in defense of academic freedom. These statements are collected and published here.
Tim Thomas, Susan Adler, and Pat Brodsky treat various threats to faculty governance, including administrative interference in faculty elections. In "Food for Thought" Pat Brodsky asks what the administration is doing with over $14 million unaccounted for in the budget.
David Brodsky chronicles a new mainstream media debate on the condition of part-time faculty, refutes numerous unsubstantiated claims made by the UMKC administration, and discusses a number of proposals to raise part-time renumeration. Other published and unpublished rebuttals to the administrative position follow.
Richard Moser of the national AAUP office presents historical background and a political analysis of the corporatization of the academy and proposes effective means of resistance.
The issue concludes with news reports of meetings by the UMKC AAUP chapter, the Missouri AAUP Conference, Teaching Tolerance forums, the Education for Democracy Network, a very well-attended education workshop at an International Conference against Deregulation and Privatization, Education for Democracy Network news, and a New York Times editorial calling for protection of public higher education against corporate hegemony. |
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iml.umkc.edu/aaup/facadv8.htm
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