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EVENTS

 

 

The agenda includes:

 

Updates on AAUP/ UCW/ Kentuckians for Higher Education efforts to defeat HB 424

Updates on the Faculty Senate

Elections for next year's officers

Planning for 2025-2026 events and speakers

 

We are at a historical moment when faculty governance, tenure, and academic freedom are increasingly under attack.  This chapter of the AAUP was part of a coalition to defend tenure.  This coalition successfully lobbied to take the most damaging aspects out of HB 424 in the House, proposed additional protections in the Senate (which unfortunately did not pass), and petitioned Governor Andy Beshear to veto the bill, which he has done, though the legislature has the opportunity to override this veto on Friday.

 

Now is the time to become involved, run for AAUP office, recruit colleagues to run for AAUP office, invite colleagues to join AAUP or Friends of AAUP.  

 

Please self- nominate or nominate a colleague. Those nominated must already be members of AAUP, or willing to join and show proof of membership before the elections take place tomorrow afternoon. 

 

Please submit your nominations by Thursday, March 27, 2025, at Noon. 

Neal Hutchens is a faculty member in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. His research focuses on the intersections of higher education law, policy, and practice, with much of his scholarship centered on issues of free speech and academic freedom in higher education. An important line of recent scholarly inquiry in the academic freedom context has focused on legislative efforts at the state level to ban the teaching of concepts associated with critical race theory (CRT), including at public colleges and universities.