SCAD censure by AM. Assoc. of Univ Professors.

College Majors Visual Arts and Film Majors
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<p>I found this on the SCAD info web site:</p>

<p>Developments Relating to Censure by the Association </p>

<p>Editor’s Note: Members of the Association’s staff, acting on behalf of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, communicate during the course of each year with administrations under censure. The staff offers its assistance and that of Committee A in bringing about developments at the institution that would enable the committee to recommend to the annual meeting that the censure be removed. A summary of developments at institutions on the list of censured administrations appears annually in the issue of Academe (prior to 1979, the AAUP Bulletin) that immediately precedes the annual meeting. </p>

<p>The statements that follow, in chronological order according to the date of imposition of censure, constitute developments at the listed institutions for the year through April 1, 2001. Relevant actions of significance that occur after April 1 will be reported to Committee A, the Council, and the Eighty-seventh Annual Meeting at the sessions of these bodies in June. </p>

<p>The list of censured administrations, cites the published reports that were the basis for the censure in each case.</p>

<p>Savannah College of Art and Design</p>

<p>The report of the investigating committee dealt with actions by the administration of the Savannah College of Art and Design to dismiss a faculty member and then to notify twelve others of the termination of their services. The report concluded that the administration disregarded the 1940 Statement of Principles in dismissing the faculty member without demonstrating cause. In the case of one of the twelve faculty members, who was entitled to the protections of tenure under the 1940 Statement, the report concluded that the administration also acted in disregard of that document. In the cases of six of the faculty members, the report concluded that there was a prima-facie case that their academic freedom had been violated. Censure was imposed by the Seventy-ninth Annual Meeting. </p>

<p>Paula S. Wallace, who had been the provost, has succeeded her former husband, Richard G. Rowan, as president of the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has not replied to the staff’s recent communications inviting discussion of steps that would bring the censure to closure. </p>

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<p>This website also lists universities censured by the AAUP, including MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), SUNY, and NYU…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.aaup.org/Com-a/Com-a%20Archives/2002/02devcen.htm[/url]”>http://www.aaup.org/Com-a/Com-a%20Archives/2002/02devcen.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You are right. There have been dozens of schools that have been censured. I guess this isn’t as bad as I thought.</p>

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<p>Actually, though there may have been dozens since the 1930’s when censures first began, they are rare events. And they’re only made after a careful investigation. They’re a pretty serious mark against a school. I know people who will refuse to interview for jobs at institutions that are under censure. As someone who supervises placement of doctoral students at my institution, I discourage anyone from considering jobs at any school that is under censure.</p>