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S ORNER ’ C Reclaiming the Marketopia U Ivory Tower Roosevelt University Adjunct Joe Berry Michael Writes a Guide for a Contingent World McIntyre By John K. Wilson President, Of all the dramatic changes in higher education in the past three de- cades, perhaps none is as important as the growing dependeence on con- RESIDENT AAUP-Illinois tingent faculty. In the next few years, the number of contingent faculty in mcintyremichael higher education will exceed all of the tenured and tenure-track faculty. So P @mac.com it is a fitting time for Chicagoan Joe Berry’s new book, Reclaiming the Anyone who has read the Chronicle of Higher Educa- Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education (Monthly tion over the past decade or so has heard the drumbeat: the Review Press). university needs to get with it and embrace the market. The subtitle is significant: organizing adjuncts is essential to changing Anyone who has taught in that decade, perhaps excepting higher education. Unless we confront the problems caused by a faculty those lucky few at universities well-insulated from the mar- dominated by temps, the major problems facing us (corporatization of ket by multi-billion dollar endowments, has felt the campuses, loss of shared governance, attacks on academic freedom, de- More on the Web: clining economic value of faculty work) will only be exacerbated. As Berry drumbeat’s effects: pressure on class sizes, marketing stud- Read Joe Berry’s notes, “A generation or more ago, most college faculty were salaried, but ies for new academic programs, students treated as cus- Illinois Academe pretty independent professionals, with the protection of tenure after a few tomers. For just as long, AAUP and the faculty at large article about years.” That reality has dramatically changed, but all too often academics have protested loudly that treating the university as one contingent faculty (including the AAUP) try to pretend that nothing is different. more business will degrade our main tasks of scholarship in Chicago at Berry’s short but useful book provides a quick analysis of the problem and teaching. But, since our high-minded sentiments ap- www.ilaaup.org. To posed by exploited contingent faculty. A substantial part of the book is pear to be getting us nowhere fast, let me suggest that we order his book, visit devoted to practical advice on how to go through the steps of organizing abandon the high ground and engage the battle where it www.reclaiming adjuncts. Berry is an organizer above all else. will be lost and won, on the terrain of the political economy theivorytower.org. of the university. As a longterm adjunct himself, Berry understands that contingent fac- Joe Berry The university may not be a business, but it does have ulty are not the problem; they are an essential component of higher educa- to pay the bills. For most private universities, that means tion. The problem is that adjuncts are so vulnerable to exploitation, and Inside This Issue tuition dollars are overwhelmingly important. As state treated as second-class (or third-class) citizens in academe. Berry’s book spending on higher education stagnates or even drops, is full of anecdotes, beginning with the adjunct who had to win a MacArthur public universities, too, come to generate an increasing share “Genius” award before getting a permanent position. UNDERFUNDING HIGHER Berry also understands the barriers to organizing. He recounts the of revenues out of tuition dollars. As a result, the student DUCATION becomes a producer of marginal revenue. Even though the adjunct who lose their jobs for daring to start a union. He reports the many E university may not run a profit, adding one extra student difficulties of bringing together adjuncts. Why colleges deserve money. generates more revenue than costs. It may be an oversim- Berry has a bigger vision than simply organizing individual campuses. Ken Andersen column, page 2 plification to say that the student is a customer – after all, He promotes the intriguing idea of “regional” union organizing, such as parents and the government may kick in a significant por- bringing all the colleges in the Chicago area under unions that could set tion of the price – but it’s not fundamentally wrong. minimal standards for all faculty. It is unfortunate, but accurate, that Berry SHARED GOVERNANCE & If students are quasi-customers, what are they showing doubts if the AAUP could ever undertake such a project, since it lacks up to buy? We know from the UCLA surveys of entering organizational strength and has no bargaining units in the Chicago area. ACADEMIC FREEDOM students that they’re buying the promise of future higher The adjunct, Berry argues, is a bridge between different worlds, the Why faculty need to help run higher incomes. We also know that to secure those higher incomes, worlds of working-class students and the tenured professoriate. He be- lieves students are sympathetic to the plight of adjunct faculty if they are education. students need to complete the degree. Students with some Peter Kirstein article, page 4 college make somewhat higher incomes than students with- made aware of the circumstances under which they work and how it nega- out, but the real break in incomes in the U.S. is between tively affects the quality of their education: “It does not seem as strange to many students to support a struggle of campus workers as it did ten or workers with undergraduate degrees and those without. ACADEMIC FREEDOM So, students come to the university to buy a credential. fifteen years ago.” That credential certifies them as having certain general skills He also sees the adjunct as a bridge between the often elitist profes- Cases at SIU and DePaul. (literacy, numeracy, and perhaps, dare we say, compliance), sors and the service and clerical workers on campus. Berry is more skepti- John K. Wilson reports, page 5 and in some cases specific skills relevant to the labor mar- cal, though, about graduate assistants: “Many of them resist recognizing ket (accountancy, public relations, hotel management, etc.). the likelihood of their future as contingents.” However, the increasingly That puts us in a very strange business, for it makes stu- difficult job market is beginning to make clear a terrible reality identified by AAUP INSTITUTE dents both the customer and the product. Berry: “College teaching is one of the few places where people sometimes Lessons learned from the AAUP That peculiarity manifests itself in the fact that students take a pay cut upon completing their training.” Berry sees tenure and organizing as the solutions for the adjunct crisis summer trainings. must labor for their credential as well as purchase it, and Lee Maltby reports, page 7 they themselves are the material upon which they labor. in academia, to make sure that institutions cannot exploit their faculty and That credential certifies a degree of self-transformation, but must treat everyone fairly. it contains little information about how the student was transformed while obtaining the credential. For the economi- American Association of PRESORTED cally rational student, the best strategy is to obtain this STANDARD credential at the lowest cost. Not for nothing does University Professors of Illinois US POSTAGE MAIL ratemyprofessor.com tell you which professors are easy and P.O. Box 477 ASTORIA, IL which aren’t. PERMIT NO. 9 Please don’t mistake this as a moralistic attack on lazy Chicago, IL 60614 students. Students are caught in a collective action prob- lem. If all students at a particular university work hard, an efficient labor market will recognize that the credential from that university is worth more, and will reward the students accordingly. However, an individual student’s effort will not PRESIDENT’S CORNER continued on page 3 WWW.ILAAUP.ORG KEN A NDERSEN Can Anything Be Done? YES! But It’s Up to You! Midterms are graded and we are getting ready for the dramatically from institution to institution. (For much greater for incumbents. But don’t overlook those not reelected for end of the term, and the holidays. The spring term will be on detail, see the AAUP Academe data of last spring or the they have greater freedom to vote their conscience. Don‘t us before we know it. Maybe it is time to think about our IBHE report of its October 18 meeting available online.) overlook the power of the lame duck. new year’s resolutions. After all, faculty are often described What can we do? One of the governor’s aides told me · We will be active in shared governance on our as taking too much time and engaging in too much delibera- last year, “No one fears an angry faculty,” and “No one will campus and across the state. Fewer and fewer faculty are tion before they make a decision, if they do. support a tax increase to pay for pensions.” But the reality active in the shared governance process. We need to rein- We could focus on national/international issues. The is the tax increase is needed to support education among vent some elements of the process to ensure faculty have a nation is worried according to the opinion polls. But let us other state needs. And yes, we need to resolve the prob- meaningful voice and have ownership of change. If not ac- focus on Illinois as our state offers much to contemplate for lems caused by past and continued disastrous decisions to tively engaged in shared governance activity we should be those of us concerned about the role of higher education in underfund the pension systems. That burden grows every monitoring their activity and expressing appreciation to shaping the state and nation’s future. As former American year. One estimate is the shortfall is equal to two years of those who are actively engaged. Meaningful faculty par- Education Council President Stanley Ikenberry pointed out the state budget. ticipation in institutional governance is at greater risk now at the October 18 meeting of the IBHE, we have done a great What can an individual do? Maybe the recent national than it has been since tenure became a reality for most fac- job of convincing the public of the great value of an educa- accolades for Rosa Parks tell us something. First, individu- ulty. The role and responsibilities of the faculty are being tion for the individual. But, we have done a terrible job of als can make a difference. Perhaps even more important, redefined—too often without faculty participation in that convincing the public of the great societal contribution of they remind us of the importance of narratives, of telling a process. higher education in its contributions economic, medical, story that captures attention and motivates change. The Two years ago the National Communication Associa- civic, aesthetic and to the overall quality of life attainable in current emphasis on getting control of the “story” and “fram- tion gave me the honor of addressing our national conven- this country. He issued an urgent call for the IBHE to speak ing” by both the administration and the opposition sug- tion on the topic “Recovering the Civic Culture.” I argued on behalf of the needs of higher education. gests the importance of controlling the narrative. that we have been seeing a well-documented loss of partici- Last year the Governor and the legislature refused to What does all of this suggest about our New Year’s pation in the civic communal activities nationally and lo- address the structural deficit that exists in the state’s bud- resolutions? cally in voting, in civic groups such as the Rotary and the get. They had that opportunity in SB/HB 750 and chose not · We will tell the story of the impact on our stu- PTA, and in our own universities, colleges, and departments. to do so. They piled greater debt on our students, our chil- dents, our institutions, and ultimately the citizens of Illi- In part, the decline in shared governance is because we dren, and our younger colleagues to handle in the future. nois of the cuts imposed on higher education. Every institu- have stopped participating in governance activity. We have They not only underfunded the state pension systems but tion, private or public, has been negatively impacted. Un- voted with our feet and our allocation of time and commit- also agreed to do so again next year. No use having that less the pattern of declining state support for higher educa- ment. fight in the legislature when everyone wants to get home— tion is reversed, the state faces a significantly darker future. I conclude as I did then with a citation by Molly Ivins. adjournment date is set at April 7— to run for reelection or We are destroying the seed corn needed for tomorrow’s Although focused on politics, her words apply to every find an alternative to serving as a legislator. Illinois pension growth. We need to tell the story to friends, neighbors, domain where we have need of a vibrant civic culture—our woes attracted attention this fall in major articles in Time legislators. It is not for our personal benefit that they need institutions are certainly one such place. “In this country, and the New York Times Magazine. The underfunded pen- to support higher education, it is for the public good as well we have the most extraordinary luck—we are the heirs to sions will be an increasing drain on the financing of higher as their personal advantage for the long term. Surely we the greatest political legacy any people have every received. education for many years to come limiting student financial know something about the value of investing for the future Our government is not them, our government is us.. . . It’s aid, needed building maintenance and new facilities, and and the value of compounding. our government, we can make it do what we want it to when support of public colleges. This affects private schools, · We will recognize and respond to the realities of we put in the energy it takes to work with other people, albeit differently than public colleges. Nor will the funds the political climate. Little will be done during the spring organize, campaign, and vote—we can still make the whole required to improve elementary and secondary education legislative session to deal with the substantial financial is- clumsy money-driven system work for us. And it’s high be there. sues that Illinois faces. But, substantial risks and opportu- time we did so.”(Molly Ivins, “Offering up a host of ex- The underfunding threatens access to Illinois higher nities will come with the fall 2006 veto session after the amples identifying Bush’s many problems,” Chicago Tri- education now that a college education is as essential as a election. Now is the time for us to establish contact with bune, September 18, 2003.) high school diploma used to be. Public universities are mov- legislators if we are to have any impact during that veto ing toward a high tuition, high financial aid model. Yet Con- session. It is too late then. Yes, most legislators will be re- Ken Andersen is Professor Emeritus of Speech Commu- gress is preparing to cut back on student aid and Illinois elected given the ability to carve out safe political districts nication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. has yet to recover from MAP cuts. Reallocation of tuition money for needy students is unlikely to meet the need while it may provoke a negative reaction from many parents and Salaries of Private College Presidents in Illinois students leading to more legislative efforts to cap tuition INSTITUTION PRESIDENT SALARY BENEFITS TOTAL increases. Institutions correctly say aid is available but the Augustana College Steven Bahls $200,000 $31,121 $231,121 high tuition rates inevitably discourage many students from Aurora University Rebecca L. Sherrick $230,631 $30,237 $260,868 even considering college. Many families have learned from Benedictine University William J. Carroll $219,647 $13,179 $232,826 bitter experience to fear debt and some need whatever in- Blackburn College Miriam R. Pride $98,196 $7,365 $105,561 SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education, 2003-04 data, chronicle.com. come the prospective student can earn. Bradley University David C. Broski $298,355 $67,992 $366,347 Have you looked at tuition and fees at your institution Columbia College Chicago Warrick L. Carter $280,763 $81,421 $362,184 recently? (My tuition and fees as an undergraduate were Concordia University Manfred B. Boos (interim) $117,285 $15,193 $132,478 $100 a year and $110 a semester on my doctorate.) The 2005- DePaul University Rev. John P. Minogue $0 $0 $0 06 undergraduate tuition and fees reported in The Chronicle Dominican University Donna M. Carroll $221,943 $31,849 $253,792 of Higher Education are startling: Bradley $18,630; Chicago Illinois Institute of Technology Lewis M. Collens $292,900 $15,575 $308,475 State $6,625; Columbia (Chicago) $15,998; DePaul $21,100; Illinois Wesleyan University Janet McNew (interim) $200,148 $35,583 $235,731 DeVry $12,160; Illinois College $15,400; IIT $22,982; Illinois Knox College Roger L. Taylor $160,000 $0 $160,000 Wesleyan $27,624; Loyola $24,612; National Louis $16,935; Lake Forest College Stephen D. Schutt $190,000 $87,128 $277,128 Northwestern $31,789; Quincy $18,330; Roosevelt $14,430 Lake Forest Graduate School of Management John N. Popoli $265,625 $20,076 $285,701 (a reduction from the previous year by $2,000); SIU-C $6,831; Lewis University James Gaffney $158,693 $10,315 $169,008 Chicago $32,265; UIC $8,302; UIS $5,375; UIUC $8,688, Loyola University Chicago Michael J. Garanzini $0 $0 $0 Wheaton $21,100. Most community colleges fall in a range Loyola University Medical Center Anthony L. Barbato $999,136 $39,230 $1,038,366 from $1,800 to $2,300. These figures do not include other Midwestern University Kathleen H. Goeppinger $552,214 $46,555 $598,769 costs such as textbooks and materials, a major concern of Monmouth College Richard F. Giese $203,200 $68,859 $272,059 students, food and housing and personal expenses. National-Louis University Curtis L. McCray $379,794 $46,192 $425,986 While tuition and fees at public institutions are still North Central College Harold R. Wilde $244,879 $62,051 $306,930 sharply lower than at private schools, particularly the more North Park University David G. Horner $169,797 $56,656 $226,453 prestigious ones, they have risen sharply in recent years Northwestern Memorial Hospital Gary A. Mecklenburg $1,600,782 $149,742 $1,750,524 and the public four-year institutions are being pressured/ Northwestern University Henry S. Bienen $593,250 $97,770 $691,020 forced to adopt a high tuition-high aid model by the decline Olivet Nazarene University John C. Bowling $131,906 $29,445 $161,351 in state support. With the emphasis on higher education as Quincy University Mario DiCicco (interim) $29,750 $1,755 $31,505 a private good, many believe public institutions should set Robert Morris College Michael P. Viollt $484,875 $27,978 $512,853 tuition at whatever level the market will bear. This will effec- Rockford College Paul C. Pribbenow $159,200 $16,660 $175,860 tively close the doors to many students and fracture the Roosevelt University Charles R. Middleton $284,720 $39,259 $323,979 American dream. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science K. Michael Welch $527,083 $185,458 $712,541 It is not that faculty are overpaid. IBHE reports that Saint Xavier University Judith A. Dwyer $237,500 $22,732 $260,232 median faculty salaries at the four-year publics are at 93.5% Shimer College Don P. Moon $55,754 $2,788 $58,542 of peer institutions and our benefits packages lag as well. University of Chicago Don M. Randel $501,714 $93,055 $594,769 Community college salaries fare better in salary compari- University of Chicago Hospitals Michael C. Riordan $1,118,855 $577,751 $1,696,606 sons but there is a running dispute about the comparison University of St. Francis Michael Vinciguerra $175,000 $19,250 $194,250 base. Independent college and universities exceed those of VanderCook College of Music Roseanne Rosenthal $80,000 $3,200 $83,200 their peer groups on the average but actual salaries vary Wheaton College Duane Litfin $202,136 $67,606 $269,742 ————————————————————————— Illinois Academe · Fall 2005 · Page 2 —————————————————————————— LEGISLATIVE REPORT 2005 Higher Education Legislative Report By Leo Welch Although the appropriations for higher education were bleak, there were some bright spots that came out of the Higher Education Summit Although many of the speakers provided detailed Illinois General Assembly. Some of the bills that have be- analysis of a variety of issues many of the spontaneous come Public Acts were as follows: By Leo Welch comments were revealing. A few of the comments were as HB 521 Group Insurance The first Higher Education Summit ever held in Illinois follows. took place on November 9, 2005 at the Embassy Suites “There is no light at the end of the tunnel” — Senator Allows state employees and annuitants to purchase Hotel in Chicago. The meeting was organized by the Illi- Miguel delValle supplemental life insurance under the age of 60 up to 8 nois Board of Higher Education. “Due to revenue constraints, do not expect any help times the basis life insurance benefits. The theme of the conference was “Higher Education: from the General Assembly” — Representative Rich HB 715 Elections – College Address Why It Matters.” This issue was the main topic for an Meyers Requires each public university and college, at the be- audience of 200 higher education leaders, members of the “You must do a better job in explaining the role of ginning of each academic year, to provide the opportunity general assembly, state government officials, business lead- higher education to the general public” — Representative to change his or her voter registration address. This Act ers, students and faculty. Apparently higher education must Kevin McCarthy also requires public colleges and universities to provide convince the general public and in turn our state legisla- “Why should the next state dollar be spent on higher mechanisms for voter registration. tors that higher education is important because state fi- education when there are other competing needs?” HB 908 Fair Share nancial support for higher has diminished since FY 2001. — Elliot Regenstein, Director of Education Reform, Provides that if a collective bargaining agreement that Five panels were convened with a main speaker and a Office of the Governor includes a fair share clause expires the employer will con- panel of responders. The common statements from legisla- “We will look for educated employees elsewhere if the tinue to abide by the fair share clause until a successor tors, as one might expect, are Illinois does not have suffi- U.S. cannot provide them.” — Richard Stephens, Senior agreement is reached. cient revenue to meet current financial demands and K-12 Vice President, The Boeing Company HB 1384 Medicare education is the current priority. Legislatures know full “Public higher education should explore other sources Allows employees continually employed by the same well that colleges and universities have the ability to en- of revenue” — Senator Rick Winkel employer since March 31, 1986 to irrevocably elect to par- hance revenue by increasing tuition and fees and that is The last panel of the day was entitled “Where Do We ticipate in the federal Medicare program. exactly what they have been forced to do. Go From Here?” which raised the question of an action HB 2515 Transferable Courses Although each of the five panels had been assigned plan. Although this summit did not develop specific crite- Requires colleges and universities to post on the World specific topics, there was in fact only one common theme: ria for an action plan, one of the speakers, Stanley Ikenberry, Wide Web information regarding transfer courses and their what direction is the U.S. going in light of decreasing sup- President Emeritus of the University of Illinois, part of a applicability towards degree requirements. port by both state and federal government for higher edu- national coalition of higher education associations and HB Health Education Grants cation and how can the higher education community con- institutions called Solutions for the Future. They are pre- vince the general public as well as legislators to return paring to launch a national dialogue in 2006 about the Provides that the Illinois Board of Higher Education will higher education to a national high priority. challenges faced by society and the role of higher educa- distribute funds to non-profit health service educational The concern of affordability is reflected in Measuring tion. institutions a priority basis. Up 2004, the national report card on higher education. In The focus of the coalition will be on the “public good” SB 445 Social Security Number the 2004 report card Illinois is given a grade of D on provided by higher education and the attempt to return Prohibits the use of social security numbers by entities affordability. The report states that “Illinois has consis- higher education to a priority, not only in Illinois, but to except for specific uses. tently provided a high level of need-basen financial aid for the nation as a whole. SB 2112 ICCB Faculty Member students, but recent policy decisions have begun to un- The challenge to us all was stated by the President of Provides that one of the 11 members appointed to the dermine this historic high level of performance.” Roosevelt University, Charles Middleton. He said “If this Illinois Community College Board by the Governor must be The impact on students was placed in a personal per- summit is held again next year, I predict we will report back a faculty member at an Illinois public community college. spective by Adam Howell, a student from Eastern Illinois that nothing significant will have happened.” Will the pub- Note: Bill Naegele of South Suburban College of Cook University, when he related in one panel discussion that lic be convinced that higher education needs more sup- County has been appointed. many of his student colleagues are forced to work the port or will we be in this same place next year? A coordi- The bill descriptions are highly edited and for more de- equivalent of full-time jobs to meet the increasing costs of nated and effective message must be generated, or his tails consult the Illinois General Assembly web site at obtaining a college degree. prediction will indeed come true. www.ilga.gov.

PRESIDENT’S CORNER continued from page 1 to generate new ideas that may or may not show up in next Consequences of Closure term’s syllabus. Almost all of us have ideas for research have an appreciable effect on the value of the credential, that we wish we had time to carry out. And, to take the long By Lesley Kordecki so the rational course of action is to free-ride, to piggy- view, none of us want to teach at the ultimate market-driven The 2001 merger of Chicago’s DePaul University with back on the hard work of others. Since all students have university where mass-produced courseware is delivered Lake Forest’s 100-year-old Barat College ended with the this same incentive the natural tendency is to produce a to the students via learning assistants paid low piece-rates closure of Barat College in June 2005. This is a brief ac- cohort of free riders. The unintended outcome of this indi- with no job security. counting of what happened to the people of Barat. vidually rational action is to lower the collective value of What are the morals of the story? Two of them will be Of the administration and staff, a few were transferred to the credential. Unfortunately, the lone diligent student no surprise coming from the AAUP. Two others may be: other campuses of DePaul. The majority (around 50) received cannot raise the market value of the credential; unrewarded · Tenure is your friend. We don’t need to apolo- severance packages from the University and left its employ diligence is rarely maintained. gize for the fact that tenure insulates us from market pres- during the final years. When Marketopia U makes decisions about how to sures. Tenure helps us maintain educational standards pre- Of the faculty, several resigned at the time of the merger. allocate revenues, the market must guide it. In any univer- cisely because it insulates us from the market. When the Ten were incorporated into the colleges of Theatre, Music, sity, some majors will require more work than others. Eco- university can’t get rid of us, we have greater latitude to and Education shortly after the merger. Subsequently, five nomically rational students will avoid them, gravitating demand more of our students. That latitude helps preserve of these have resigned or retired. instead to the majors that allow them to secure their cre- the university from market failure. Twenty-six remaining tenured or tenure-track faculty, dentials with the least labor. Marketopia U will rationally · Faculty governance is your friend. At most of our those who revamped all curricula for the new Barat College respond to student demand by shifting resources to pro- universities, the faculty still has effective power to hire of DePaul, were then required to interview for faculty posi- grams in the greatest demand. In consequence, rigorous and tenure, as well as power over the curriculum. Tradi- tions in the other colleges if they wished to continue at the programs will become marginal to the university, while gut tional standards of academic rigor preserve the university University. Twenty were accepted into various departments courses will proliferate. The economically rational actions from market failure even as they serve our interests as or were brought into a newly created Academic Affairs unit, of students and administrators will ineluctably transform faculty members. four accepted the buy-out offered, one retired, and one re- Marketopia U into Slacker U. · External research grants are your friend, not only signed. The five non-tenure track faculty, nearly all with a There’s good news and there’s bad news. The good because they buy you time for your research agenda, but long history at the college, were not rehired by the Univer- news is that market-driven universities are not necessarily because they diversify the university’s revenue base. As sity. the wave of the future. Because of the incentive-compat- that revenue base diversifies, the market exerts less pres- ibility problems sketched above, market-driven universi- sure on the university. ties are likely to produce degrees of lowered value in the · The development office is your friend, for similar Glenn Poshard market. Rich private universities, those most insulated from reasons. Development officers may have to spend a good market pressures, will continue to command a premium. deal of their time sucking up to people with money, but Named SIU What’s the bad news? The bad news is that any indi- their holy grail is unrestricted giving, exactly the sort of vidual university can be run into the ground by an admin- revenue stream that insulates the university from market President istration pursuing the mantra of the market. pressures. SIU alum Glenn Poshard, a Why are faculty members the first and often the only In short, AAUP’s fight is as important today as it was former state senator, member of line of defense against the encroachment of the market? in 1940. Unfortunately, we come to that fight with our ranks Congress, and Democratic can- Not because we’re nobler or smarter or more farsighted depleted. National membership is down by more than half didate for governor in 1998, was than other players in the game, but because our immediate in the past generation. Strong, active chapters are the ex- named president of the SIU sys- and long-term interests are different. None of us wants to ception rather than the rule. My predecessor, Pan tem in November. Poshard was spend our nights grading hastily composed student es- Papacosta, has spent the past three years working to chair of the SIU Board of Trust- says. None of us wants to live in fear of bad student evalu- strengthen chapters across this state. I want to carry on ees until he resigned this summer to pursue this job. SIU ations caused by a rigorous curriculum. Few of us want that work. Contact us, and let’s talk about how the state attracted controversy for paying a search firm $90,000 to our courses packed with so many students that we’re re- conference can work with your chapter to rebuild AAUP’s find candidates and refusing to release the names of the duced to courses built around lectures and multiple-choice base. finalists. Poshard will be paid $292,000 per year; he holds a exams. All of us would like to pick up a book now and then, doctorate in educational administration from SIU. ————————————————————————— Illinois Academe · Fall 2005 · Page 3 —————————————————————————— Shared Governance and Academic Freedom By Peter Kirstein ernance, if done correctly, leads to collabo- fairs Council. academic freedom in the classroom. The I have had the opportunity to speak on ration not confrontation; cooperation not In the AAUP document, “Faculty Ten- “AAUP 1940 Statement of Principles on a variety of campuses since my suspension competition; collegiality and not conflict that ure and the End of Mandatory Retirement” Academic Freedom and Tenure” affirms that for an anti-military e-mail on Veterans Day in emanates from a mutual respect of differing there is a necessary revision of the “1940 professors may express their opinions in the 2002. This past Spring I had the opportunity roles but common objectives to pursue aca- Statement” that had declared that tenure shall classroom: “Teachers are entitled to freedom to speak at McKendree College, a venerable demic excellence. continue, absent financial exigency, dis- in the classroom in discussing their subject.” institution with a bucolic, lovely campus in Of course without academic freedom and missal for cause, or retirement for age. Since Professors can be radical, left-wing, Lebanon, Illinois and at East-West Univer- tenure, shared governance would be impos- January 1, 1994, however mandatory retire- Trotskyite, anarchist, conservative, pacifist, sity, a wonderfully progressive, dynamic in- sible as faculty rights would be eviscerated ment for age is prohibited under the federal right wing and even controversial! The au- stitution of diversity in the Loop in down- under a fear of dismissal and loss of liveli- Age Discrimination in Employment Act. dience, which included the university’s chan- town Chicago. The event at McKendree was hood. Shared Governance can only flourish Thus the “1940 Statement” must be read to cellor who had kindly introduced me, sponsored by their AAUP chapter, whose when the faculty, who are described as “of- mean that retirement terminates tenure, but laughed at the word “controversial.” AAUP president is Brian Frederking (who was re- ficers” of an institution in the “1940 State- retirement cannot be “for age.” Despite the guidelines expressly indicate that, “Contro- cently elected to the IL-AAUP state coun- ment on Academic Freedom and Tenure,” near iconic stature of the 1940 statement, it versy is at the heart of the free academic cil). I spoke on the topic: “Shared Gover- has the capacity to assert that role without is not the Holy Grail and needed significant inquiry which the [1940 statement] is de- nance and Academic Freedom: Resisting arbitrary sanctions through the granting of modification and updating with the 1970 In- signed to foster.” Professors can use books, Marginalization and the Persecution of the continuous tenure. AAUP is explicit on the terpretive Comments. I think the entire docu- lectures, and exams that advance the Left.” Most of my remarks dealt with AAUP importance of academic freedom as a means ment could benefit from a robust revision instructor’s commitment to critical thinking documentation on Shared Governance. This for preserving and exercising shared gover- that updates the AAUP’s commitment to and pursuing pedagogy as a moral act. Pro- was a somewhat different topic for me and I nance. Although I am an academic freedom academic freedom and tenure. fessors are, however, proscribed from “per- perused the “Redbook” and other sources specialist, I sought to empower the mostly At East-West University last May, an sistently intruding material which has no to familiarize myself with the nuances of this faculty-member audience that academic free- institution celebrating its twenty-fifth anni- relation to their subject.” A course on as- vital concept. I also read thoroughly the dom for faculty members encompasses the versary with a year-long “Perspectives Lec- tronomy, for example, cannot be used by an McKendree College Handbook, and sum- unfettered right to express their views “on ture Series,” I spoke on the topic: “Resist- instructor to condemn gay marriage or abor- marized AAUP guidelines concerning matters having to do with their institution ing Conformity: The Threat to Academic tion with a frequency that intrudes on the Shared Governance that could apply to the and its policies.”(“On the Relationship of Freedom.” Naturally, I cast this presentation stated objectives of the course. Professors decision of McKendree to embark upon Faculty Governance to Academic Freedom,” in the context of war. Randolph Bourne was may stray from their course topic as long as graduate-level programs. 1994) This Redbook document states “in the a pacifist intellectual who wrote for Seven they are not “persistently intruding” unre- Indeed, one of the issues at the college case of institutional matters, grounds for Arts magazine before it was suppressed for lated material. As a professor said to me once was a concern that the faculty would be al- thinking an institutional policy desirable or antiwar advocacy during World War I. He at an out-of-state university, “Yes, we are lowed to participate fully in the implementa- undesirable must be heard and assessed if wrote in “War is the Health of the State,” a allowed here to say, “Good morning.” or tion, staffing and assessment—my favorite the community is to have confidence that major uncompleted antiwar essay before he “Have a nice weekend!” word—of graduate-level programming. It its policies are appropriate.”(Emphasis died at age 32 from Spanish influenza, a pan- I think the enemies of academic freedom, was emphasized that faculty, administration added) demic during the Great War: “The pursuit of some of whom are quite liberal by the way, and governing boards must participate in It reaffirms the professoriate’s primary enemies within outweighs in psychic attrac- would do well to consider President strategic-decision making. Institutions of role in curricular matters which obviously tiveness the assault on the enemy without. Kennedy’s extraordinary humility in his higher learning, despite the current fetish of would include establishing graduate The whole terrific force of the State is American University address in 1963: “If we emulating the latest Fortune 500 business programmes among the assorted disciplines brought to bear against the heretics …A… cannot end now our differences, at least we model, are not corporations with a board of of the faculty. “Moreover, scholars in a dis- terrorism is carried on by the Government can help make the world safe for diversity.” directors that alone determines and imple- cipline are acquainted with the discipline against pacifists, socialists, enemy aliens, While the president was attempting to bridge ments strategic planning. A university may from within; their views on what students and a milder unofficial persecution against the Manichaean divide between the Soviet “sell” education but it cannot do so effec- should learn in it, and on which faculty mem- all persons or movements that can be imag- Union and the United States, it certainly has tively unless the faculty plays a seminal role bers should be appointed and promoted, are ined as connected with the enemy.” contemporaneous applicability to academia. in its formulation. It is simply poor manage- therefore more likely to produce better teach- Socialist, antiwar historian Howard Diversity for ideological differences, di- ment and inefficient use of university re- ing and research in the discipline than are Zinn, who was my adviser and frequent pro- versity in courageously rejecting the silenc- sources for an administration not to recog- the views of trustees or administrators.” fessor at Boston University, wrote: “One ing of those with whom we disagree under nize or solicit the expertise that faculty have In reading the McKendree Manual, I was certain effect of war is to diminish freedom the guise of public manners or goofball calls in curriculum development, utilization of fi- astonished to see a mandatory retirement of expression. Patriotism becomes the order for self-deprecatory disclaimers, diversity in nite resources, mission statements and as age of seventy. Yet this appears in the of the day, and those who question the war challenging the canon of educational rigid- overseers of the intellectual life of an insti- McKendree Manual: 2.9.2 “Retirement.” “At are seen as traitors to be silenced and im- ity and bureaucracy and recognizing with- tution. McKendree College, normally retirement prisoned.” I then summarized many of the out intellectual or ethnic diversity in aca- Examples of faculty being marginalized occurs at the end of the academic year in McCarthy Era witch-hunts that were directed deme, the capacity of higher education to and underrepresented in determining stra- which the faculty member attains the age of against university professors that led to the elevate and liberate the consciousness and tegic-decision making within an institution 70. Continuous tenure expires simulta- direct dismissal of about 100 and hundreds folkways of a society is suppressed and at- of higher learning clearly exceed those rare neously with retirement….” Even if not en- more being eased out through FBI pressure. tenuated. moments when the professoriate attempts forced, it is illegal and should be excised I then compared the 1950s with several to usurp control that unfairly intrudes upon because McKendree could be vulnerable to contemporary cases that raised questions Peter N. Kirstein is professor of history the rights of an administration or governing litigation and AAUP censure if it were imple- as to the vitality of academic freedom since at St Xavier University in Chicago. He is a board. AAUP does not construe governance mented. This is an example of how an AAUP September 11. Professors Ward Churchill, member of the Illinois-AAUP council and a as a Hobbesian, or if I may add, a chapter can assist a college or university in Nicholas De Genova, Richard Berthold, Sami member of its Speakers Bureau. He has neoconservative “war of all against all,” but developing policies and practices that, if Al-Arian and my own experiences were pre- served on the AAUP national Committee as a collaborative enterprise. Yes there are nothing else, are compliant with federal law. sented in comparative perspective. Consid- on Membership and as president of his chap- competing interests. Yes there will be con- I was told the AAUP chapter had referred erable time was also spent in the question ter. flicts. Yes there are politics. Yet shared gov- this matter to the McKendree Faculty Af- and answer session on the parameters of ILLINOIS AAUP ANNUAL MEETING SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2006 7th Circuit Rules Against Student Press By John K. Wilson ST. AUGUSTINE COLLEGE, CHICAGO On June 20, the 7th Circuit Court of Ap- tary school teachers. Decades of cases es- peals ruled against college student rights to tablishing the unique legal status of colleges 2006 AAUP National Elections a free press in the case of Hosty v. Carter. and academic freedom, based on the matu- The following individuals have been approved by the AAUP nominating committee On November 1, 2000, Patricia A. Carter, dean rity and rights of college students, might be for elections next March. Nominations by petition are due by December 15, 2005. Candi- of student affairs at Governors State Uni- wiped away if Hosty is upheld. date statements for President can be found on page 6. See www.aaup.org for more versity in Chicago’s south suburbs, called In his opinion, Judge Frank Easterbrook information. the printer of the student newspaper, the also hauled out the dubious idea of institu- President Innovator, and demanded prior approval of tional academic freedom: “Let us not forget Thomas E. Guild, Legal Studies, University of Central Oklahoma everything in the paper, which had annoyed that academic freedom includes the author- Cary Nelson, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign administrators with its criticism of the uni- ity of the university to manage an academic First Vice President versity. Prior restraint is a classic violation community and evaluate teaching and schol- of freedom of the press, and the editors Jeni arship free from interference by other units Larry G. Gerber, History, Auburn University (Alabama) Porche and Margaret Hosty soon sued the of government, including the courts.” If “aca- Daniel P. Murphy, History, Hanover College (Indiana) university. demic freedom” means only the power of Second Vice President Student press groups were alarmed when administrators to “manage an academic com- Estelle Gellman, Educational Psychology, Hofstra University (New York) the Illinois Attorney General’s office argued munity,” then students and professors alike Gerald M. Turkel, Sociology, University of Delaware that the 1988 Supreme Court case Hazelwood will be subject to censorship by the admin- Secretary-Treasurer School District v. Kuhlmeier should apply istration. Jeffrey A. Butts, Biology, Appalachian State University (North Carolina) to college newspapers. The student editors of the Innovator are George C. Wharton, Communication, Curry College (Massachusetts) The Hosty decision could also affect fac- appealing Hosty v. Carter to the U.S. Su- Council Nominees ulty academic freedom. If college students preme Court, and if the case is accepted, it District IV - Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri have no more Constitutional protections could represent one of the most important Patricia Simpson, Sociology, Loyola University Chicago than first graders do, then college profes- cases regarding college student rights and Jesse Swan, English, University of Northern Iowa sors may have no more rights than elemen- academic freedom. Professor Bean and the Zebras A Tale of Two Professors By John K. Wilson standable that African-American teaching One academic freedom controversy this assistants would be leery of continuing to spring involved history professor Jonathan work with a professor after being told that Under Attack at DePaul Bean at Southern Illinois University at black serial killers might have been a cre- By John K. Wilson a Holocaust trivializer, and a liar, and a falsi- Carbondale. Conservative columnist Cathy ation of the civil rights movement, and then This fall, DePaul University has faced fier of quotations and documents.” Young called it “a witch-hunt that would do publicly exposing the professor’s allegedly two academic freedom controversies, with Dershowitz wasn’t satisfied with his le- the late Joe McCarthy proud.” According to racist assignment. mixed results. When the case involved a ten- gal threats against the University of Califor- Young, “if this case is any indication, con- Jane Adams, an anthropology professor ure-track professor, DePaul University has nia Press. He apparently wrote California servatives on many campuses are not just a who defended Bean, denounced his faculty (so far) stood up for his rights, albeit qui- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asking to rare breed but an endangered critics for a “serious breach of collegiality” etly. When the case involved an adjunct in- have the book banned. “You have asked for species.”(Cathy Young, “SIU Persecutes Its because his “reputation has been publicly structor who insulted students outside of the Governor’s assistance in preventing the Lone Conservative ,” Boston Globe, May 3, smeared.” However, this is a misunderstand- class, DePaul quickly got rid of the teacher. publication of this book,” Schwarzenegger’s 2005) ing of collegiality, which is often used as an When the University of California an- office responded to Dershowitz in a Feb. 8, The controversy began in Bean’s 20th excuse to silence dissenting faculty. Colle- nounced plans to publish DePaul professor 2005 letter, but “he is not inclined to other- Century America class. After some classes giality does not mean faculty get together Norman Finkelstein’s book Beyond Chutz- wise exert influence in this case because of about the civil rights movement, Bean to hug each other. In fact, one important job pah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the clear, academic freedom issue it pre- handed out an article about the Zebra Kill- for faculty colleagues is to criticize one an- the Abuse of History, Harvard law professor sents.” ings, a dozen or more murders around San other. Alan Dershowitz struck back even before Now that Finkelstein’s book has been Francisco in 1973 and 1974, carried out by a Bean wrote shortly after his apology, the book was published. Dershowitz had his published, Dershowitz is promising not to gang of black thugs who apparently targeted “They want a pound of my flesh!...They’ve attorney, Rory Millson, threaten legal action sue Finkelstein or his publishers (“If I whites. Bean used an article from David been waiting to lynch me. I made the mis- against the University of California regents, wanted to sue him, I’d own him”), but is Horowitz’s website, frontpagemag.com. The take using this particular source (sort of).” the provost, plus the 17 directors of the instead declaring that he will come to DePaul original article included a link to the Euro- The administration, far from attacking Bean, University of California Press and its 19 mem- University at his own expense in 2006 when pean American Issues Forum (EAIF), a white came to his defense. Dean Shirley Clay Scott bers of the faculty editorial committee. Finkelstein is up for tenure in order to get supremacist group “dedicated to the eradi- reassured Bean that the issue was over and Dershowitz accused the Press of being “part him fired: “I will document the case against cation of discrimination and defamation of he faced no danger of disciplinary action. of a conspiracy to defame” him, and his at- Finkelstein. I’ll demonstrate that he doesn’t European Americans” which had a petition Scott was much more harsh toward Bean’s torney threatened, “The only way to extri- meet the academic standards of the Asso- on its website calling for congressional in- critics, chastising the eight professors who cate yourself is immediately to terminate all ciation of American Universities.” It’s not vestigation of excessive Jewish influence on had publicly criticized Bean. Scott sent an professional contact with this full-time mali- clear what academic standards Dershowitz America. (Horowitz’s website calls it “a civil email to the history department, ordering cious defamer.” is talking about, but open lobbying for fir- rights organization.”) faculty critics of Bean to “be more careful” Dershowitz warned the University of ing a professor as an act of personal revenge In an April 6, 2005 email to his teaching and “curb rhetorical flourish.” Scott de- California press that he would “own the com- probably doesn’t meet them. assistants, Bean indicated the questions clared, “we should try to act with great civil- pany” if Finkelstein’s book accused him of The attack on Finkelstein is not the only they should raise in discussing the article: ity toward one another.” A professor who plagiarism. Finkelstein argues that academic freedom controversy at DePaul. “Did the civil rights movement lend an aura publicly criticized Bean, Rachel Stocking, Dershowitz lifted quotations from another Thomas Klocek, an adjunct instructor, got of innocence (or moral immunity) to all black noted: “What we did was to exercise our author’s book, but cited the original cita- in a heated argument with DePaul Palestin- actions, however heinous? If we study the free speech by basically criticizing his teach- tions for the quotes rather than the book ian students at an information table on Sept. ugliness of the KKK, should we look at other ing methods. It’s significant that people who where he apparently got them. This is lazy 15, 2004. After the students complained, he forms of racism? Someone once wrote that spoke against racism on a college campus scholarship by Dershowitz, but not what is was suspended on Sept. 24 and then fired. the oldest story known to man is that of the have been subjected to this kind of attack.” commonly regarded as plagiarism. However, Dean Suzanne Dumbleton explained, “The former oppressed becoming the oppressor.” plagiarism is a disputed term, and everyone students’ perspective was dishonored and Soon afterwards, Bean wrote an email apol- SIU Minority Graduate should be free to promote their own defini- their freedom demeaned. Individuals were ogy and described the reading as “supple- Fellowships Under Attack tion of it without legal penalty. According to deeply insulted…. Our college acted imme- mentary.” The U.S. Department of Justice in No- Dershowitz, “the First Amendment gives no diately by removing the instructor from the Whatever the legitimacy of countering vember threatened to sue Southern Illinois author the right to make up defamatory lies classroom.” articles with civil rights by teaching about a University for three graduate fellowship pro- and publish them.” The DePaul administration accuses gang of serial killers from the 1970s who tar- grams aimed at helping underrepresented mi- Finkelstein’s book was originally going Klocek of “threatening and unprofessional geted whites, the fundamental fact is that norities, including one financed by the Na- to be published by the New Press, but behavior,” although it has never specified Bean was never punished in any way (and tional Science Foundation. Two of the pro- Finkelstein changed publishers after any threats made by Klocek. AAUP guide- obviously should not be punished) for as- grams are limited to minority students, while Dershowitz’s legal threats delayed the book lines protect the extramural speech of all aca- signing an essay, even though it had links the Graduate Dean’s Fellowship is “for (Dershowitz proudly takes credit for getting demics, including adjunct instructors. Re- to a white supremacist group and he bizarrely women and traditionally underrepresented New Press to drop the book, a claim denied moving an instructor for an argument out- suggested that African-Americans had be- students who have overcome social, cultural by New Press and Finkelstein). The Univer- side of class is a violation of due process, come “oppressors” of white people. In fact, or economic conditions.’’ According to the sity of California Press hired four lawyers to and firing him is even worse. Extramural com- there are no reports of anyone filing charges Justice Department, “The University has en- screen the book and forced Finkelstein to ments are only subject to punishment if they against Bean or formally investigating Bean gaged in a pattern or practice of intentional make changes to his manuscript and tone indicate professional misconduct, and hos- or ordering him to withdraw an assignment. discrimination against whites, non-preferred down some of his accusations. tile arguments may be unpleasant but cer- The worst that happened to Bean was that minorities and males.’’ U.S. Senator Barack Dershowitz declared, “Any person has tainly do not rise to that standard. the dean cancelled discussion sections one Obama, an expert on civil rights law, told the a right to make an honest mistake, but no Although some critics point to Klocek’s week during the turmoil, and allowed two Chicago Sun-Times: “One of my concerns one has the right to defame another mali- firing as an example of political correctness, teaching assistants who were offended by has been with all the problems the Bush ad- ciously and knowingly.” Actually, everyone it primarily reflects the powerlessness of Bean to leave the course. While this was a ministration is having, that they’ll start re- should have the right to defame another adjunct faculty and the corporatization of questionable decision, deans have the au- sorting to what they consider to be wedge person, as Dershowitz does when he de- colleges where students are seen as cus- thority to shift teaching assistants who have issues as a way of helping themselves po- clares about Finkelstein, “he’s a Jew and an tomers and those who offend them will be a conflict with professors. And it is under- litically.” anti-Semite— and a neo-Nazi supporter, and removed. AAUP Supports Graduate Student Union Rights The following op-ed by AAUP president dard than profit-seeking corporations and organizing an initiative called Faculty De- have been allegations of electronic surveil- Jane Buck appeared in New York should serve as models for our society. It is mocracy to oppose the administration’s ac- lance of GAs and faculty by NYU adminis- University’s student newspaper, the morally incumbent upon the NYU adminis- tion and to clarify the nature of decision- trators. If these charges are true, the admin- Washington Square News. tration to honor the democratically deter- making at NYU. More than 200 faculty mem- istration is guilty of an egregious violation mined wishes of its most vulnerable employ- bers are active participants in that effort and of academic freedom. Without the backing By Jane Buck ees, the graduate teaching assistants who have declared their support for the action. It of a strong union, graduate teaching assis- As the voice of the higher education pro- have expressed their desire to be unionized. is both disingenuous and risible to assert tants are virtually powerless. fession and leading advocate for the highest Despite a recent ruling by the National La- that the mentoring relationship is harmed Graduate students have, for many years, academic standards for almost a century, the bor Relations Board, there is no legal bar to by good faith negotiations about salaries, been able to join AAUP as nonvoting mem- American Association of University Profes- their doing so. benefits and access to fair grievance proce- bers. This year, we granted our graduate stu- sors deplores the decision of the NYU ad- The NYU administration claims that the dures. dent members full voting rights and the right ministration to sever bargaining relations decision to break ties with the union, a United It would appear that the decision to sever to hold office at every level of the organiza- with its graduate student union. In response Auto Workers local, was based in part on ties with the union was motivated by a de- tion. This action reinforces our 2000 “State- to the legally permissible but ethically ques- the premise that allowing graduate students sire to continue to exploit the graduate teach- ment on Graduate Students,” which says, in tionable choice made by the NYU adminis- serving as teaching assistants to have bar- ing assistants, who are part of an increas- part, that graduate student assistants, like tration, the graduate student employees have gaining rights jeopardizes the traditional ingly impotent and exploited cadre of the other campus employees, should have the voted overwhelmingly to strike as a means roles of professor and student. The argu- academy that includes part-time faculty. right to organize to bargain collectively. We to regain their right to bargain. ment essentially claims that teaching assis- They spend a major portion of their time and view the decision by NYU graduate student Instead of averting a strike by bargain- tants represented by a union are inevitably effort in lecturing, grading papers and moni- assistants to strike, taken in a democratic ing in good faith with the democratically placed in an adversarial relationship with toring examinations — in other words, per- vote, as a legitimate attempt to regain that elected union, the NYU administration has their faculty mentors. That position is ren- forming the teaching duties of a professor. well-earned right, and we will continue to chosen to intensify the crisis, using confron- dered tenuous and indefensible by the fact Too frequently, graduate assistants are support them in their efforts. tational language to mischaracterize the con- that a clear majority of NYU faculty sup- forced to perform these duties with minimal cerns of graduate student unionists. We con- ports the teaching assistants in their efforts administrative support, for minimal pay, with Jane Buck is the president of the Ameri- demn such inflammatory tactics. Colleges and to obtain a new contract. The NYU chapter inadequate office space and with little or no can Association of University Professors. universities should be held to a higher stan- of AAUP has reinforced that position by access to health benefits. Additionally, there AAUP 2006 Presidential Candidates Tom Guild Cary Nelson Candidate Statement for Candidate Statement for Thomas E. Guild Cary Nelson AAUP will need strong, positive leader- Every faculty member—even the most ship - at every level - during the next two vulnerable part-time teacher—benefits each years. Dynamic and constructive leadership day from the work the AAUP has done for is imperative, since academic institutions will decades. Imagine a world without the 1940 confront inadequate financial support, large statement on academic freedom and tenure, classroom sizes, threats to academic free- without decades of censuring rogue insti- dom and tenure, and attacks on shared gov- tutions, without thousands of violations for ernance. Professors will be asked to do more which the organization has quietly gained with fewer resources. Therefore, the AAUP reversal or redress. Academic freedom at must stand ready to respond quickly and best would be defined randomly and incon- effectively to requests for assistance. sistently at the whim of sympathetic and Accurate membership lists must be avail- unsympathetic administrators alike. able upon request, and applications for mem- Yet each new generation needs to be bership and membership renewals must be educated about our values, and we must processed in a timely manner. We must con- constantly apply these values to a chang- tinue to develop meaningful programs, bet- ing world. Many administrators are far from ter inform our membership on crucial issues, convinced that academic freedom applies to and mobilize to defeat harmful legislative what people say on college or university proposals. We must encourage significant email or on university web sites. Few ad- Education: B.A.1976, University of Okla- membership growth by limiting increases in ministrators acknowledge faculty rights to homa; J.D. 1979, Southern Methodist Uni- Association dues, and by providing quality Education: B.A., 1967, Antioch College; control the content of online courses. Our versity. University of Central Oklahoma: services to our members. PhD, 1970, University of Rochester. Appoint- policy statements on such emerging is- Assistant Professor to Professor, 1979- Our challenge is especially great today. ments: University of Illinois at Urbana- sues—contingent labor, intellectual prop- present. Faculty Senate Executive Commit- Since administrations tend to be relatively Champaign, Assistant Professor of English erty rights, the impact of 9/11 on the acad- tee, 1991-2; Regents Presidential Search conservative and since only a limited num- to Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sci- emy—are detailed, well reasoned, and with- Committee, 1992; Chair, Curriculum Commit- ber of institutions enjoy the benefits of col- ences, 1970-present; Campus Tenure out equal. tee, Academic Affairs Council, 1992-3; Vice lective bargaining, the Association must Commitee 1987-88; College Executive Com- Yet most faculty across the country Chair, Curriculum Committee, Academic Af- develop and implement policies that con- mittee 1989-91. have little idea of what the organization has fairs Council, 1999-2001; Chair, Faculty Griev- vince faculty of AAUP’s continuing rel- Professional Service: SUNY Buffalo: Vis- accomplished. It is likely that only a small ance Board, 2000-2003; Outstanding Teacher evance and importance. We need to promote iting Professor; Vice-Chair, Abraham Lincoln percentage of the professoriate has ever read Award, College of Liberal Arts, 1987; Dis- collective action in both union and in tradi- Brigade Archives 1995-2005; Modern Lan- one of our major policy statements, let alone tinguished Researcher Award, College of tional advocacy environments. Membership guage Association: Delegate Assembly a full committee A report or the Redbook. Business, 1993; and AAUP-UCO Distin- growth and effectiveness depend upon the 1997-2002, Executive Council 1999-2002; Although our work is of the highest quality, guished Service Award, 1994 and 2001. credibility of strong local chapters and state Midwest MLA, President, 1998; PMLA Ad- we do a very poor job of communicating Member: American Civil Liberties Union; conferences, effective communication, and visory Committee 1982-86. about it. Society for the Study of Social Problems; the implementation of relevant programs. Editorial Boards: Literature and Psychol- Part of the problem is a certain stodginess Oklahoma Division American Association of It is vitally important to have strong and ogy 1985-present, Works and Days 1995- about technology. We need to communicate University Women Executive Committee dedicated professionals serving as AAUP present, College Literature 1995-present, regularly and concisely about our work to 2000-2. AAUP Chapter: Executive Commit- chapter and state conference leaders. It is Workplace 1997-present, Cultural Studies/ our members by email. We need to educate tee 1991-2006; Treasurer, 1991-2; President- imperative that strong local chapters and Critical Methodologies 2001-present, Kalei- the professoriate as a whole about our his- elect, 1992-3 and 2001-2; President 1993-5 effective state conferences serve as the first doscope 2003-present, American Literary tory and our current projects. Informing fac- and 2002-3; Chair, Distinguished Service two lines of defense against violations of History 2004-present. ulty and graduate students about what we Award Committee, 1997-2000 and 2002-3; our cherished principles. Selected Publications: Author, Repres- do is the first step in rebuilding our member- Editor Priority Press, Chapter Newsletter My involvement in the Association be- sion and Recovery: Modern American Po- ship, which must be a top priority for the 1993-5 and 2002-4; Chair, Evaluation of Ad- gan as chapter treasurer. During my three etry and the Politics of Cultural Memory next president. ministrators Committee 1995-7 and 2001-5. terms as chapter president, we derailed sev- (1989); Manifesto of a Tenured Radical Thousands of faculty have spent the last Conference: Executive Committee 1993-2006; eral attempts to abolish tenure in Oklahoma, (1997); Revolutionary Memory: Recovering two decades hiding from the changing reali- President-elect, 1994-5, 1996-7, 1998-9, 2000- worked successfully to end a 26-year AAUP the Poetry of the American Left (2001); Co- ties of higher education—ignoring the in- 1; President, 1995-6, 1997-8, 1999-2000, 2001- censure of my university, fought post-ten- Author, Academic Keywords: A Devil’s Dic- creased reliance on contingent labor, ignor- 2; Chair, Committee on Government Rela- ure review (PTR), and subsequently helped tionary for Higher Education (1999), Office ing the gradual shift of power to central ad- tions, 1996-2003; Chair, Committee on Mem- write a faculty-friendly version of PTR. We Hours: Activism and Change in the Acad- ministrations. Yet AAUP members are well bership 2000-6; Member, Committee A on also successfully fought to adopt a pro-fac- emy (2004); editor, Will Teach for Food: Aca- informed about these trends and the seri- Academic Freedom and Tenure, 1998-2001; ulty intellectual property policy. demic Labor in Crisis (1997); coeditor, Higher ous threat they constitute. We may differ Executive Secretary 1998-9 and 2000-6. Tes- During my four terms as Oklahoma Con- Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics about what strategies to use in dealing with tified Regarding Due Process for Higher ference President, we twice passed faculty and the Crisis of the Humanities (1994). Au- them, but we are in consensus about the Education Faculty, before Oklahoma Senate due process legislation in the Oklahoma Sen- thor of 150 articles. Contributor to Academe, nature of the problem. Our members are thus Education Committee, House Higher Edu- ate, and defeated two proposals to end fac- The Chronicle of Higher Education, and In- a wonderful resource; we must involve more cation Subcommittee and House Education ulty tenure in Oklahoma. We also coordi- side Higher Education. Regularly interviewed of them in our activities. We must organize Committee, 1998-2002. nated efforts leading to the four largest by national media on higher education. national email and letter campaigns to sup- National: Al Sumberg Award, Outstand- higher education funding increases in state Chapter: Planning Committee, 2000- port helpful legislation and challenge admin- ing Service in Furthering the Interests of history. We successfully increased our mem- present. National: Council, 1995-2006; Execu- istrations violating academic freedom. Higher Education in Oklahoma, 1999; Mem- bership and became and remain an effective tive Committee, 2000-2006; Academe Advi- As president, I would continue writing ber, Council, 1998-2006; Chair, Assembly of voice for college faculty. sory Board, 1996-2005; Ad Hoc Committee and speaking passionately about higher State Conferences, 2002-5; Vice Chair, As- As the only candidate for national presi- on Graduate Students, 1997-99; Chair, Spe- education on AAUP’s behalf. Working with sembly of State Conferences, 1999-2002; dent who has served as a chapter president cial Committee on Academic Professionals, our talented and devoted staff, I would dedi- Member, Collective Bargaining Congress or a state conference president, I am pre- 2000-2002; Chair, Committee on Academic cate myself to membership development and Executive Committee, ex officio as ASC Chair pared to assist and serve local and state lead- Professionals, 2002-2004; Annual Meeting to the public phase of our endowment cam- 2002-5; Member, Membership Committee, ex ers across the country in starting, revitaliz- Grievance Committee, 2004; Nominating paign. officio as ASC Chair 2002-5; Member, Con- ing and developing their chapters and state Committee, 2004; Restructuring Task Force, Despite decades of careerism in the acad- tingent Faculty Fund Governing Board, 2002- conferences. 2004-present; Development Committee, emy, there remains a vital core of idealism in 5; Faculty, Summer Institute, 1999, 2002, If elected AAUP President, I will visit as 2004-present; Task Force on the Future of the professoriate. It is evident in city-wide 2003, 2004; Delegate, Assembly of State many chapters and state conferences as the AAUP, 2005; Graduate Student Commit- living wage campaigns, in renewed and more Conferences and Annual Meeting, 1994-5, possible. During my years as Chair and Vice tee, 2005-present; Annual Meeting Agenda socially conscious collective bargaining 1997-2005; Member, Committee on Govern- Chair of the Assembly of State Conferences, Committee, 2005; Search Committees: Staff drives among both faculty and graduate stu- ment Relations, 1996-2005; Member, Special I promoted our Association’s principles in Attorney, 1997-98, Academe editor, 1998, dents. Such actions demonstrate that new Committee on Membership, 2000-2005; Pan- visits to more than 30 states. This work re- 2002, 2004; Second Vice President, 2000- faculty identities can embody both disciplin- elist, Annual Meeting, 1997-9; Testified be- sulted in two new state conferences and 2006; Guest editor, “Future of Higher Edu- ary loyalty and community responsibility. fore Texas House Education Committee on dozens of new chapters. These efforts cation,” Academe, November-December This idealism can be tapped to make the Post-Tenure Review, 1997. AAUP Member strengthen the tie between our grassroots 2000. AAUP stronger, larger, and more influential. 1991-2006. membership and our elected leadership, a Election email: [email protected]. relationship essential to our success. Web site with vita, biography, essays I would be honored to serve as your on academic freedom and corporatization; president. endorsements: www.cary-nelson.org WWW.ILAAUP.ORG

————————————————————————— Illinois Academe · Fall 2005 · Page 6 —————————————————————————— Report from 2005 AAUP Summer Institute in New Hampshire By Lee Maltby, St. Augustine College wield inappropriate influence over politicians, smaller private schools to become discour- “Live free or die. We don’t use air condi- donors, and alumni, unqualified (e.g., politi- aged and thereby unmotivated to work for tioning. Those are moral statements and they cally or church appointed) presidents, and positive changes in decision making. And, are not debatable.” With these and other utilitarian for-profit educational institutions of course, if one’s employment depends on welcoming (and humorous) remarks, approxi- (see the IBHE meeting agenda for 8/23/2005), being a ‘company man’, then speaking out mately 150 members of the AAUP began their calling for the approval of dozens of program against the status quo can be very danger- weekend of July 21-24, at the Summer Insti- offered by independent for-profit institu- ous. tute in Durham, New Hampshire, home of tions). At the conference on governance, fac- the University of New Hampshire. Thurs- Sadly, even institutions involved in ulty were reminded that “a sound system day night’s banquet was the kick-off for two academia have little to nothing to say about of institutional governance is a necessary days of conferences on how to support and academic freedom. A search in the 2003 Hand- condition for the protection of faculty rights promote the professoriate for the benefit of book of Accreditation of the North Central and thereby for the most productive exer- society, which in today’s hyper-connected/ Association of the Higher Learning Commis- cise of essential faculty freedoms. Corre- communicated/conflicted world can not be sion contains two lines asking for evidence spondingly, the protection of the academic limited by geography anymore. of how the board has disseminated state- freedom of faculty members in addressing Around eighty percent of the attendees ments supporting freedom of inquiry in the issues of institutional governance is a pre- at the Institute were first-timers. From Illi- institution. A third line addresses “creating requisite for the practice of governance nois, our delegation consisted of John Wil- and maintaining a climate of intellectual free- unhampered by fear of retribution.” (On the April 2005.) son (editor of Illinois Academe), Patricia dom.” This is from a manual almost two hun- Relationship of Faculty Governance to The Summer Institute also included pre- Simpson of Loyola University of Chicago, dred pages in its entirety. Similarly, the mis- Academic Freedom, AAUP Redbook.) sentations on a wide variety of topics, in- and Lee Maltby of St. Augustine College. sion of the Illinois Board of Higher Educa- At the conference faculty were told that cluding an introduction to AAUP, Rebuild- Workshops began Thursday afternoon, and tion is not focused on academic freedom. An it is possible for academic freedom to col- ing Your Chapter, Contract Negotiations, ran until Saturday afternoon. Topics were email inquiry seeking information on docu- lide with governance issues. This type of Grievance Administration, Newsletters, Ar- typically focused on issues more relevant ments from the IBHE on academic freedom situation can occur in conflicts with admin- bitration, Faculty Compensation, Gender to new members and new chapters, such as resulted in quick response by a kindly staffer istrators, such as their appointment and Equity, Issues in bargaining, Institutional how to start a chapter, recruiting new mem- that no “IBHE documents refer to the issue.” evaluation, or calls for votes of no confi- Finance, Rights of Contingent Faculty, bers, faculty handbook, collective bargain- How did it come to pass that such important dence. Last, “In sum, sound governance Trends in Faculty Status, Communications, ing, etc. bodies that are deeply involved in authoriz- practice and the exercise of academic free- Recruitment and Development, Diversity, As a first-time attendee, I was impressed ing and accrediting programs, have nothing dom are closely connected, arguably inex- Student Organizing, Legal Representation, with the depth of knowledge and experience to say about academic freedom? It was no tricably linked.” Presenters stated, however, Benefits, and Public Hearings. of the workshop leaders. They presented a surprise then when one presenter at the sum- that faculty cannot depend on the good- While many faculty may see little ben- dynamic view of the academy and the AAUP mer institute stated the profession may be on will of administrators and governing boards efit in attending the Summer Institute, or any that was thoughtful, intelligent, and deeply its last legs due to the ongoing assaults on to simply give faculty a role in governance. AAUP meeting for that matter, it is impor- concerned about higher education today. tenure and academic freedom. And, we might By implication, then, faculty must demand tant to understand that higher education is Beginning with the first workshop, attend- add, the lack of support from other bodies a role in governance, and exercise that role being attacked from many sides, even as its ees were reminded that it is by their prepara- whose missions are to promote and protect responsibly. (For a quick, intelligent sum- importance continues to grow. In his book tion, scholarship, peer review, and continual the quality of education. mary on governance and academic freedom, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (2000), Tho- study of their area(s) of expertise, that fac- In conversations and conferences, sev- see the interview with historian Joan mas Friedman describes how globalization ulty possess their competence and exper- eral references were made to the so-called Wallach Scott in Academe, September-Oc- is having an impact on almost every aspect tise, and by virtue of those qualities, are the “Academic Bill of Rights” that has been wend- tober 2005.) of people’s lives today. No person can es- ones best suited to attend to matters of cur- ing its way in and around various states’ leg- The workshop on governance also in- cape the consequences of this process, and riculum, teaching and scholarship. Accord- islatures. This bill would dilute the influence cluded an interesting tool that can be used whether we like it or not, globalization will ing to the AAUP and as stated in the work- of faculty in their area of expertise, increase for evaluating the state of shared gover- continue to develop. This “one big thing” shop, attendees were told that faculty are the influence of non-academics in curricu- nance at an institution. This tool was taken as Friedman calls it, can leave a nation fight- not employees in the general meaning of the lum, teaching, and research; and posits, es- from a shorter work by Keetjie Ramo titled ing over barren land or developing new tech- word, and that the primary obligation of fac- pecially in social sciences and humanities, Assessing Faculty’s Role in Shared Gover- nologies to improve the life of a nation and ulty is to the public, not the employing insti- that theories, knowledge, and values can be nance: Implications of AAUP Standards the world. New knowledge, creativity, and tution. Therefore faculty should not be sub- doled out to students in neat little packages (1998). Faculty seeking to initiate a con- an environment that supports those pro- ject to a board of trustees, just as judges are for easy consumption. Should this bill ever versation at their institution may find this cesses are essential for the success of a na- not subject to politicians. This point is cru- make its way into public law in Illinois, most tool very helpful and interesting. tion that is globalizing (and we are number cial for understanding the principle of aca- likely as a “stealth attachment” to another Closely linked to governance and an 1!). Even as academic freedom takes on dif- demic freedom. At the same time, the pre- bill, the professoriate in Illinois would have important topic at the Summer Institute, is ferent shades and colors in different disci- senters had no patience for faculty who lack no one to blame but itself. While this pro- the issue of faculty manuals or handbooks. plines and institutions of higher learning, competence, integrity, or ‘moral rectitude’, posal, which “borrows” language from the This discussion was led by Kreiser, Shaw, the need for new knowledge and skills is and they were supportive of processes that AAUP, has not been passed in any state leg- and Levy. In addition to handing out an essential for the well-being of all people. The allow for the correction and for ejection of islature, in the current political climate, any- overwhelming outline of possible topics for AAUP has a very important role in ensuring faculty from the academy when necessary. thing is possible. a faculty handbook, the presenters made a that the academy, in service to all people The central theme throughout the con- In addition to the “academic bill of rights,” number of very important recommendations (i.e., the common good), continues to be at ferences was the importance of academic politics and economic pressures are used to in order to strengthen a faculty handbook. the forefront of all development and con- freedom and the right and responsibilities justify the reduction in the numbers of ten- First, a handbook should describe the full versations about where our society and of faculty to exercise their competence in ure track faculty and to increase the numbers benefit of rights available to faculty. Two, a world are going. their area of expertise for the benefit of (glo- of non-tenure track faculty and contingent faculty manual provides a common bond AAUP members who are interested in bal) society. There are, of course, many faculty. There was general acknowledgement across programs and colleges. Three, the attending the Summer Institute next year people, including some academics, who mini- and empathy for non-tenure track and part- manual helps to explain standards and prin- should visit the AAUP website at mize the importance of academic freedom. time faculty, who are now the workhorses for ciples that are being used with faculty. www.aaup.org. Readers interested in join- However, at the institute, it was possible to institutional economic well-being. Faculty at Faculty were warned against being put ing the AAUP can likewise visit the national hear stories of fellow professors whose the institute agreed that the growing pres- under EMPLOYEE manuals, where a single office electronically, and become a member rights, income, and professionalism were ence of non-tenure track and contingent fac- policy applies to all. It is the position of the with a few quick clicks. sullied and degraded by college presidents, ulty represents a danger for everyone con- AAUP that faculty have the competence deans, or governing boards who believe cerned about academic life, not to mention and experience to judge (from hiring to fir- Write to Illinois they can ignore the rights of professors, their academic freedom. Yet even “throw-away” ing) their peers. A policy that is written for Academe freedom to teach and speak, and the pro- faculty have a need to eat. “all” will likely not apply to faculty. cesses that uphold those rights. There have Of central importance to academic free- The presenters recommended that a Write us a letter, express your been occasions when even the simplest act dom, is the issue of shared governance. Pre- faculty manual should refer to the AAUP opinion, or submit an article or a of protest regarding a decision or a process senters Kreiser, Scholtz, and Shaw stated that Redbook as the source of its principles and book review. of decision making within an institution can faculty, in addition to their traditional roles in values. Second, a faculty manual should Email editor John K. Wilson at teaching, curriculum and research, should incorporate AAUP language as much as lead to dismissal, eviction from one’s office, [email protected]. a lawsuit, loss of income, and a loss of pro- have an important role in matters of salary, possible. The benefit of including refer- fessional respect. One attendee reported that budget, the selection and evaluation of ad- ences and quotes from the Redbook is that after she had spoken in public about a re- ministrators, and yes, athletics. policies not explicitly found in the hand- Illinois Academe Wins Again cent event, her name began appearing in chat It is here that private institutions can be book can then be referred to the Redbook. At the AAUP Annual Meeting, the Illi- rooms and on websites, denouncing her the most dangerous for faculty and academic Third, faculty contracts should explicitly nois AAUP newspaper won its second views and her position in the university. She freedom when matters of decision-making refer to the faculty manual as the source of straight award for the best tabloid confer- stated that she felt very threatened by these and influence are at stake. Due to differences faculty rights and responsibilities. That lan- ence newspaper in the country. attacks. of law governing public and private institu- guage then links the contract with the Shimer to Chicago? It may be true in many institutions, es- tions, faculty at smaller and lesser known pri- Redbook and AAUP policies. Last, the Shimer College in Waukegan is currently pecially those better protected by federal vate institutions can have great difficulty handbook should include a provision that in talks with the Illinois Institute of Technol- and state laws, and bargaining rights, that making inroads into the decision making pro- the faculty manual CANNOT be amended ogy (IIT) to lease space in Chicago and move the opportunities for the abuse of one’s aca- cess. Unfortunately, it seems to require the unilaterally. (For an outrageous example of most of its operations there. IIT made the demic rights may be less. Nevertheless, chal- presence of an enlightened administrator to this problem, see the report on Academic offer in order to strengthen the liberal arts lenges to those protections are ongoing by welcome faculty into the higher realms of Freedom and Tenure: University of the on campus and allow its students to take lobbyists and conservative ideologues who decision making. It is very easy for faculty as Cumberlands (Ky) in Academe, March- Shimer’s Great Books courses. ————————————————————————— Illinois Academe · Fall 2005 · Page 7 —————————————————————————— Judy Erwin New IBHE Head tier system of higher retirement ages and lower Fisher reported, “Triton College Adjunct Illinois AAUP News Former state legislator Judy Erwin was cost-of-living increases proposed by Gov. Rod Faculty Association (IEA-NEA), River Arbitrator Sides with City named in October as Executive Director of Blagojevich to help resolve the state’s Grove, IL, ran its first CEW information Colleges Administration the Illinois Board of Higher Education underfunded pension system. table. We distributed CEW/FEW buttons, which were very popular. The top admin- City Colleges of Chicago won a Novem- (IBHE). Erwin chaired the House Higher Edu- istration got some, too! We spent most of ber ruling by an arbitrator supporting the cation Committee during her legislative ca- Campus Equity Week our time educating students, I hope to firing of 55 adjunct emeritus professors who reer, and also taught political science as a Campus Equity Week was held nationally good effect. We are in the midst of negoti- had honored a picket line of striking full- graduate assistant at UIC. Erwin said, “We on October 30-November 5. Sponsored jointly ating our first contract, and CEW/FEW time professors in fall 2004. The arbitrator live in a time when postsecondary educa- by the AAUP, the American Federation of was a low-key way to get our message to ruled that the retired professors did not have tion is increasingly an essential experience Teachers, and the National Education Asso- the campus at large. Next year we plan to a valid complaint because they were not for the modern workplace.” ciation, Campus Equity Week raises aware- do more.” Joe Berry, author of Reclaiming part of the bargaining unit, even though ness about the status of adjunct faculty at the Ivory Tower, spoke during Campus the new contract prohibits reprisals against Future State Pensions Reviewed colleges. At Green River Community College Equity Week at his home institution of anyone for strike. City Colleges chancellor In a November 2005 report, the Advisory in Washington, organizers held a bake sale Roosevelt University along with a speech Wayne Watson received a vote of no confi- Commission on Pension Benefits refused to with “full time” and “part time” cookies of iden- at St. Xavier University sponsored by the dence from faculty because of the City Col- recommend any specific reductions in ben- tical quality, except that the part-time cookies AAUP chapter there. leges’ retaliation. efits for new state hires, rejecting the two- cost half as much. At Triton College, Adrian

John K. Wilson, editor of Illinois Academe, and the coordinator of the Independent St. Xavier AAUP Letter of Press Association’s Campus Journalism Project, will publish his newest book, Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies (Paradigm Publishers) in Spring 2006. Support for Academic Freedom All Illinois AAUP members are invited to bring him to your campus as part of his book May 10, 2005 tour. For more information, email [email protected]. Dear President Dwyer: The Saint Xavier University chapter of the American Ken Andersen, Speech Communication, Uni- Pan Papacosta, Columbia College in Chicago, and Association of University Professors (AAUP) strongly af- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, past presi- president, IL AAUP: firms the principles of academic freedom and institutional dent, IL AAUP: 1) Academic Freedom & Tenure; 2) The significance autonomy in the selection of commencement speakers. The 1) Shared Governance and Due Process; 2) of the Faculty Handbook. SXU chapter strongly opposes efforts of the Cardinal Academic Freedom & Tenure. Newman Society to challenge the selection of Sr. Margaret Lawrence Poston, English, University of Illinois at Farley, a distinguished Yale theologian and Sister of Mercy, Joe Berry, Roosevelt University. Author, Re- Chicago: as spring commencement speaker. The AAUP chapter mem- claiming the Ivory Tower (Monthly Review Press, 1) Academic freedom and tenure; 2) Academic bership has urged its Executive Committee to communicate 2005). Visit his website at governance. its support of the decision of the president and the Board of www.reclaimingtheivorytower.org. Trustees to select Sr. Margaret Farley for this honor. Com- Leo Welch, Biology, Southwestern Illinois Col- mencement is both a celebration of our students’ academic Joseph Felder, Economics Bradley University, lege, and past president, IL AAUP: accomplishments and a challenge for future service and en- Secretary, IL AAUP (member of AAUP National 1) Legislation and academia; 2) Collective bar- gagement in the world around them. Clearly Sr. Margaret is a Council): gaining issues in academia. wonderful selection to pose that challenge. 1) Academic challenges of the national AAUP office; 2) Types of services and assistance from IL AAUP speakers are generally available free of Saint Xavier University-AAUP Chapter Executive Com- the national AAUP office. charge to AAUP chapters, and the Illinois AAUP can mittee of the American Association of University Professors cover most expenses. We invite all our chapters and Jacqueline Battalora, President Peter Kirstein, History, St. Xavier University. members to make use of this Speakers Bureau. Norman Boyer, Treasurer Contact IL AAUP President Michael McIntyre at Olga Vilella, Secretary Jack Leahy, Religious Studies, DePaul Univer- (773) 510-5923, [email protected]. We are ac- Jan Bickel, At-Large Representative sity, and past president, IL AAUP: cepting nominations and proposals from experienced Sandra Burkhardt, At-Large Representative 1) Academic issues in religious affiliated insti- AAUP members who wish to serve on this bureau. Margaret Carroll, At-Large Representative tutions; 2.) Contingent faculty. ILIL AAUP AAUP Speakers Speakers Bureau Bureau IL AAUP Speakers Bureau ILIL AAUP AAUP Speakers Speakers Bureau Bureau Peter N. Kirstein, Ex Officio

AAUP of Illinois The Illinois Illinois AAUP WWW.ILAAUP.ORG AAUP is a P.O. Box 477 501(c)4 Chicago, IL 60614 organization. Join the AAUP (773) 510-5923 The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is the only faculty [email protected] organization devoted solely to higher education. We address the issues that concern you as a teacher and as a scholar. Our policies ensure that faculty members are Executive Committee: afforded academic due process.The AAUP protects and defends your rights. President If you are a member of the faculty, you need to be a member of the AAUP. Michael McIntyre International Studies Program Yes, I would like to join the AAUP De Paul University Please complete this form and mail it to the AAUP,P.O. Box 96132,Washington, DC 20077-7020. e-mail: [email protected] For details, go to www.aaup.org or call our membership department at 1-800-424-2973, ext. 3033. Vice President Leo Welch Name ______Biology Department (Please Print) Last First Middle Southwestern Illinois College Mailing Address Home Work e-mail: [email protected] Secretary ______Lee Maltby City: ______State: ___ Zip: ______Chair, Dept. of Social Work Daytime tel.: ______Fax No.: ______St. Augustine College Email: ______Tenured: Yes No e-mail: [email protected] Institution: ______Treasurer Academic Field: ______Lisa Townsley Mathematics Department 2005 Illinois AAUP Dues Benedictine University $160 Full-Time Active Faculty Membership e-mail: [email protected] Past President $80 Entrant Active Faculty (new to the AAUP,non-tenured, first four years) Pangratios Papacosta $40 Part-Time Faculty Membership Science/Math Department $10 Graduate Student Membership Please do not Columbia College (312) 344-7443 $120 Associate Membership (administrators) include my name on non-AAUP email: [email protected] $120 Public Membership (others) mailing lists. Other State Council Members: Payment Options Walter J. Kendall, The John Marshall Law School; Frederic W. Widlak, College of Management & Business, My check payable to the AAUP is enclosed for $ ______National-Louis University; John K. Wilson, Graduate student, Please send me information about the bank debit plan Illinois State University & Illinois Academe editor; Peter N. Please charge $ ______to Visa Mastercard Kirstein, Dept. of History & Political Science, St. Xavier Uni- versity; Kurt Field, Bradley University; Brian Frederking, Card No. ______Exp. Date ______Signature ______McKendree University. ————————————————————————— Illinois Academe · Fall 2005 · Page 8 ——————————————————————————