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Iowa Board of Regents President Craig Lang and President Pro Tem Bruce Rastetter will speak at the spring meeting of the AAUP Iowa Conference, on the morning of Saturday, April 13, in 116 Art Building West. -- This event is open to the public. Following their comments a panel of faculty members moderated by Lois Cox, UI, Clinical Professor of Law, will respond to the regents’ comments. Time will be reserved for questions from the audience.

The day will begin at 9:30 a.m., with the business meeting of the UI Chapter of the AAUP, followed at 10:00 a.m. by registration (free of charge) for the AAUP Iowa Conference meeting in the atrium with refreshments being served. At 10:45 a.m. the conversation with Regents Lang and Rastetter, along with panel response and questions will begin. This session will be followed at noon by the AAUP State Conference business and planning meeting.

All members of the University of Iowa community are encouraged to attend this conversation with Regents Lang and Rastetter. All members of the UI AAUP chapter are also invited to the 9:30 a.m. meeting.

If you have questions or require accommodations in order to attend, please contact chapter president Katherine Tachau at katherine-tachau@uiowa.edu.

Reduction in Research Support Must Stop -- Chapter president Katherine Tachau published a guest column in the Daily Iowan addressing the chapter's concern with the reduction in research support at the University of Iowa. (view pdf)

Gartner Defends Academic Freedom -- Former Iowa board of regents president Michael G. Gartner published a full-page op-ed piece in The Des Moines Register concerning the controversy surrounding ISU's Harkin Institute and recent decisions that clearly violate academic freedom. (view)

Crisis at the University of Northern Iowa -- The University of Iowa chapter of the AAUP expresses its support for and solidarity with its sister AAUP chapter at the University of Northern Iowa, United Faculty. A special edition of our newsletter addresses this crisis. The United Faculty website can be found here and their blog here. A YouTube channel was created that provides convenient access to nearly a dozen videos of faculty members addressing the crisis.
 

The AAUP's mission is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.

 

 

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Events

Executive Comm. Meeting

The Executive Committee of the Chapter meets monthly to consider relevant campus issues. Our next meeting will be at 7:30 pm, Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Schaeffer Hall, Room 137. All AAUP members are invited to attend our meetings.

Tenure Workshop

The annual AAUP Promotion and Tenure Workshop took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 7:00-9:00 pm (reception at 6:30 pm), in Art Building West, Room 116. This workshop addressed issues such as “unwritten” tenure rules, handling setbacks, the importance of mentors, and maintaining documentation.

LWV Legislative Forum

The UI AAUP chapter, the Iowa City Education Association, the ICCSD, and the League of Women Voters of Johnson County co-hosted a legislative forum on Sat., Jan. 26, 2013, 9:30-11:30 am at the North Liberty Community Center. At this forum citizens posed questions to members of the Johnson County legislative delegation.

Resources

Policy Documents & Reports

The AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports, also known as the Redbook, contains the Association's major policy statements. Order the book from the national AAUP site. A selection of policy statements from the Redbook is available online.

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