Iowaâs âButter-Margarine Warâ: T. W. Schultzâs Fight for Academic Freedom
Theodore W. Schultz, emeritus professor and former head of University of Chicago s Economics department, attends a press conference after winning the Sveriges riksbank s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 1979. University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Rights and Reproductions. Copyright: Chicago Maroon, October 19, 1979, p. 1
David Seim is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He directs a small history program within the schoolâs Social Science Department. His research interests include development of safeguards for responsibly unfettered social science, and persistence of conversation about whose interest social science serves. Some of these interests are in his book Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science (Routledge, 2015), which stops short of the time period and issues explored here.
While the AAUP and CUPA-HR don’t have current data on how many institutions plan to resume their stalled benefits, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, or TIAA, said that nearly all of its top 200 client institutions that are still suspending retirement matching contributions plan a full reinstatement by July 1.
Lehigh University, for instance, told faculty and staff members earlier this year it will restore merit raises and retirement benefits starting in July. Freezing those programs in March 2020 helped the university avoid layoffs amid financial uncertainty, Nathan Urban, provost, and Patricia Johnson, vice president of finance and administration, said in their restoration announcement.
The OU chapter of the American Association of University Professors urged the university to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for students and employees before returning to in-person activities in the fall semester in a Monday press release.Â
OU recently lifted its university-wide masking requirements and social distancing policies May 19 following the CDCâs recent change in guidelines stating fully vaccinated individuals may resume pre-pandemic activities without wearing a mask or social distancing. The CDC further encouraged immunocompromised individuals to continue wearing masks and social distancing even if they are fully vaccinated.Â
The association wrote in a press release OU did not justify why proof of COVID-19 vaccinations will not be required from all students, faculty and staff except for those in âhealth-related activities and education abroad programs.â It wrote that this is âmost likely to bring confusionâ when students and faculty
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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)