Concerns About NYU Administration’s Announcement for Fall 2020 Re-start
The NYU AAUP Chapter is deeply troubled by the recent announcement of NYU administrators that a decision to re-start NYU in Fall 2020 has been reached. We are concerned about the health and safety of all faculty, staff, and students. We see the administration’s decision as being driven primarily by…
Principles for a Post-COVID University
How should NYU play its role in a “just recovery” from the COVID crisis? How can we build on the experience of the crisis and from the opinions, grievances, and solidarity that circulated in NYU communities during this period? In thinking about how the university can sustain and rebuild itself,…
Statement on the Labor Action of Graduate Students
The AAUP has a long record of advocating for student, as well as faculty, rights. These include the right to exercise academic freedom in the pursuit of teaching and research and the right to fair labor conditions in the work performed by graduate students for the university. In addition, as…
Statement on Student Speech Rights
[view as PDF] The AAUP is not solely a faculty organization. It exists to protect the speech of all members of the academic community, and it must speak in defense of student voices, who are among the most vulnerable, and often the most subject to censure from university administrators. We…
Statement on Steven Thrasher’s Commencement Address
The AAUP is not solely a faculty organization. It exists to protect the speech of all members of the academic community, and it must speak in defense of student voices, who are among the most vulnerable, and often the most subject to censure from university administrators. We have chosen to…
Statement on the Department of Social and Cultural and NYU Tel Aviv
Dear President Hamilton, The Executive Committee of NYU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors supports the autonomy of the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) in choosing not to cooperate with the study abroad program at NYU’s Tel Aviv site (NYU-TA). We strongly support the right of individual departments and schools…
Statement on NYU Tenure Denial
Dear Provost Fleming: The NYU chapter of the AAUP has recently learned of four tenure casesthat were denied by the Dean or Provost’s office after unanimousdepartmental and/or School support. The awarding of tenure is a decisionthat is subject to the principles of shared governance; thus it is worrisomethat so many recent recommendations by faculty have…
Faculty Conduct with Regard to Studying Abroad in Israel: Follow-Up NYU-AAUP Letter to NYU President Andrew Hamilton
[view as PDF] To: President Andrew Hamilton In the days since we sent you the NYU-AAUP letter, the national AAUP has weighed in, condemning the UM administration’s decision to punish Professor Cheney-Lippold without any semblance of the due process that is required, under AAUP policy, in cases concerning the disciplining…
Faculty Conduct with Regard to Studying Abroad in Israel: NYU-AAUP Letter to NYU President Andrew Hamilton
[view as PDF] To: President Andrew Hamilton We, the officers of NYU’s AAUP chapter, are writing to comment on the news that University of Michigan Professor John Cheney-Lippold has been censured and punished by administrators for declining to write a letter of recommendation for a student applying to a Study…
Faculty Visa Denials: NYU-AAUP Letter to NYU President Andrew Hamilton
[view as PDF] Dear President Hamilton, We, the officers of the NYU-AAUP chapter, are writing to express our strong concern about the revelation, as published in a New York Times op-ed article that our colleague Mohamad Bazzi, was denied permission to teach at NYUAD. We have now learned that Arang…