Dartmouth Faculty Move to Organize
A group of faculty at Dartmouth College has organized under the American Association of University Professors.
The group is taking aim at three key issues: reforming the tenure process, increasing job security and workplace rights for adjunct professors, and securing academic freedom.
The effort began last fall after Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon moved to distance the college from public statements made by Professor Mark Bray, said Annelise Orleck, a history professor at the college and one of the leaders of the AAUP chapter. Bray, an expert on Antifa, was quoted widely after the violence in Charlottesville.
That and several other incidents led some faculty members to feel their academic freedom was under threat, Orleck said. She and her colleagues are also concerned that the school's tenure process has become less transparent and consistent.
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