AAUP Purdue

This evening, at a special meeting, the Purdue University-West Lafayette chapter of AAUP unanimously passed the following resolution about Purdue University Global. 

Resolution regarding Purdue University Global

WHEREAS, it is the mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) to 

advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good; 

WHEREAS, it is the purpose of the Purdue University AAUP Chapter to serve as a faculty voice to advocate for and defend the rights of faculty and students associated with Purdue University;

You may have seen the recent news coverage about AAUP identifying some problematic practices restricting academic freedom of Purdue Global faculty and students.

Inside Higher Education reports today that Purdue Global has dropped the expectation that Purdue Global faculty sign a NDA as part of their terms of employment.  However, the expectation that students must forgo their legal rights and agree to undergo forced arbitration instead of bringing Purdue Global to court continues. 

Read the Inside Higher Ed piece here.

Tell Purdue what you think about its practice of requiring forced arbitration here. 

We will have our Fall meeting on Nov 1, 2018 from 5-6 pm in STEW 314.

We will share a more formal agenda closer to the time, but the current sketch of a plan is to review the chapter bylaws (which I will send out in advance), discuss chapter dues, and figure out both officers and Committee A membership, both of which are in dire need.  (I do have one new volunteer for committee A already. :-) )  If you have something else for the agenda that needs to be discussed by the chapter, please let me know as soon as reasonable.

Please, if you are interested in AAUP’s efforts, and haven’t yet formally joined, please do so here: https://www.aaup.org/membership/join
 

AAUP National is inviting faculty upset about the Purdue Global NDA to join with them in supporting a statement posted here.  Please join us by adding your name!

AAUP National posted today a press release about an NDA that it appears employees of Purdue Global are expected to sign.  

Purdue Global’s NDA states that any work product, including all course materials "or other intellectual property that arises in any part in the course of … employment at Purdue Global, is commissioned and owned by Purdue Global as a work-for-hire and may not be used, duplicated or distributed outside of Purdue Global."

“Asserting ownership over the faculty’s teaching-related materials undermines standard academic practice, violating faculty rights to their own intellectual property as well as their academic freedom,” Scholtz says. “This type of agreement would be unprecedented for a public, non-profit university.”

More information available through the press release here.

Hello!  It's been kind of quiet around here. We're getting back in the saddle with a whole new communication plan.  

If you have found this website, please make sure you find our other places for posting information too!

AAUP Purdue Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/aauppurduechapter

AAUP National: http://www.aaup.org

Already a member? Join our listserv: aaup-purdue@googlegroups.com

If you have questions, send us an email at aaup.purdue@gmail.com. Hope to see you at a forthcoming meeting, which when we schedule, we will post in all these places!

Purdue AAUP Spring meeting

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

PMU, room 263AB

4:30pm

"... is the freedom to teach, both in and outside the classroom, to conduct research and to publish the results of those investigations, and to address any matter of institutional policy or action whether or not as a member of an agency of institutional governance. Professors should also have the freedom to address the larger community with regard to any matter of social, political, economic, or other interest, without institutional discipline or restraint, save in response to fundamental violations of professional ethics or statements that suggest disciplinary incompetence.” 

 To view the entire presentation use the read more link to the right

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