Alex Simon, the AAUP, Alaska, Academic Freedom
The following from Alex Simon, who has rejoined our faculty after several years in Alaska. Thanks for the invitation to blog. I will definitely join the local AAUP chapter. Here is the original article which resulted in me having a very public confrontation with Chancellor Pugh over academic freedom. I am convinced that without a union I would have been fired. http://juneauempire.com/stories/020509/loc_385027568.shtml Here is an editorial that AAUP Secretary Gary Rhoades wrote in response to the legislator’s threats to cut university funding: http://juneauempire.com/stories/020809/opi_385924086.shtml And here is an article which appeared in Inside Higher Education regarding the confrontation I had with Pugh regarding academic freedom. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/10/sex