ERIC Number: ED629265
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Apr
Pages: 28
Abstractor: ERIC
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Academic Freedom and Tenure: Collin College (Texas)
American Association of University Professors
This report concerns actions taken by the administration of Collin College to terminate the services of Professors Lora Burnett, Suzanne Jones, and Michael Phillips. The investigating committee found that the administration's actions involved "egregious violations" of all three faculty members' academic freedom to speak as citizens and to criticize institutional policies, and, in the case of Phillips, of academic freedom in teaching. The committee determined that the administration dismissed Jones and Phillips from their appointments without a pretermination hearing before an elected faculty body in which the burden of demonstrating adequate cause for dismissal rests with the administration. The committee also found that the administration failed to afford Burnett the opportunity to petition an elected faculty committee to review her allegation that the nonrenewal decision violated her academic freedom. The report concludes that the conditions for shared governance and academic freedom at Collin College are "grossly inadequate." [The text of this report was written in the first instance by the investigating committee.]
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Tenure, College Faculty, Teacher Dismissal, Decision Making, College Administration, Teaching Methods, Criticism, Freedom of Speech, School Policy, Hearings, Evidence, Governance, Committees, Governing Boards, Community Colleges, Political Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Political Influences, Historic Sites, Sculpture, Letters (Correspondence), Racism, United States History, Social Media, Elections, Presidents, Teacher Attitudes, College Presidents, Public Officials, Electronic Mail, Interviews, Newspapers
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Identifiers - Location: Texas
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