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Censure List from the AAUP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2015

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Abstract

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Gazette
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2015 

Investigations by the American Association of University Professors of the administrations of the institutions listed below show that, as evidenced by a past violation, they are not observing the generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure approved by this Association, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and more than two hundred other professional and educational organizations which have endorsed the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

This list is published for the purpose of informing Association members, the profession at large, and the public that unsatisfactory conditions of academic freedom and tenure have been found to prevail at these institutions. Names are placed on or removed from this censure list by vote of the Association’s annual meeting.

Placing the name of an institution on this list does not mean that censure is visited either upon the whole of the institution or upon the faculty, but specifically upon its present administration. The term “administration” includes the administrative officers and the governing board of the institution. This censure does not affect the eligibility of nonmembers for membership in the Association, nor does it affect the individual rights of members at the institution in question.

Members of the Association have often considered it to be their duty, in order to indicate their support of the principles violated, to refrain from accepting appointment to an institution so long as it remains on the censure list. Since circumstances differ widely from case to case, the Association does not assert that such an unqualified obligation exists for its members; it does urge that, before accepting appointments, they seek information on present conditions of academic freedom and tenure from the Association’s Washington office and prospective departmental colleagues. The Association leaves it to the discretion of the individual, possessed of the facts, to make the proper decision.

Institutions are listed in chronological order according to when their administrations were placed on the censure list. The list contains only administrations which are still under censure (many others have been removed from the list after improving their practices and procedures). Reports through 2009 were published in the AAUP Bulletin or Academe, and the issue of publication is indicated in the “Report Published” column. Starting in 2010, reports were published first on the AAUP website, in the month and year indicated in the “Report Published” column, with print publication following in the next issue of the Bulletin of the AAUP. In rare cases, a supplemental report has been issued after the initial report. Clicking on the institution title will take you to a .pdf of the report.

INSTITUTION NAME, STATE, AND YEAR CENSURED

Grove City College (PA), 1963

Frank Phillips College (TX), 1969

Concordia Seminary (MO), 1975

Murray State University (KY), 1976

State University of New York (NY), 1978

Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas (AR), 1978

Nichols College (MA), 1980

American International College (MA), 1983

Metropolitan Community College (MO), 1984

Talladega College (AL), 1986

Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (PR), 1987

Husson University (ME), 1987

Hillsdale College (MI), 1988

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (NC), 1989

The Catholic University of America (DC), 1990

Dean College (MA), 1992

Baltimore City Community College (MD), 1992

Loma Linda University (CA), 1992

Clarkson College (NE), 1993

North Greenville College (SC), 1993

Savannah College of Art and Design (GA), 1993

University of Bridgeport (CT), 1994

Benedict College (SC), 1994

Bennington College (VT), 1995

Alaska Pacific University (AK), 1995

National Park Community College (AR), 1996

Saint Meinrad School of Theology (IN), 1997

Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MN), 1997

Brigham Young University (UT), 1998

University of the District of Columbia (DC), 1998

Lawrence Technological University (MI), 1998

Johnson & Wales (RI), 1999

Albertus Magnus College (CT) 2000

Charleston Southern University (SC), 2001

University of Dubuque (IA), 2002

Meharry Medical College (TN), 2005

University of the Cumberlands (KY), 2005

Virginia State University (VA), 2005

Bastyr University (WA), 2007

Cedarville University (OH), 2009

Nicholls State University (LA), 2009

North Idaho College (ID), 2009

Stillman College (AL), 2009

Clark Atlanta University (GA), 2010

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (TX), 2010

Bethune Cookman University (FL), 2011

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (LA), 2012

Northwestern State University of Louisiana (LA), 2012

Southeastern Louisiana University (LA), 2012

National Louis University (Illinois) (IL), 2013

Southern University, Baton Rouge (LA), 2013

Northeastern Illinois University (IL) 2014

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (TX), 2015

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL), 2015

University of Southern Maine (ME), 2015

Felician College (NJ), 2015

CAUT CENSURE LIST

For information on the censure policy from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), please visit http://www.caut.ca.