[freespirited]

Benedict is the college that fired two science professors for refusing to comply with a grading policy called SEE (Success Equals Effort). Professors have to calculate grades based on a formula that weights actual achievement at only 40%. The other 60% is effort.

http://www.benedict.edu/divisions/acadaf/office/policy_n_proc/bc-acad_affairs-see_policy-letter.html

[ncountylee]

"...“autocratic presidents” who ignore faculty rights... at Black Colleges..."

Also known as the 'Robert Mugumbe Syndrome.'

[the Real fifi]

I think the CUNY case is more interesting. The college is in trouble because it fired a convicted terrorist. (Sheik Rahman's translator who worked with Lynn Stewart to pass on messages from the thug to his cohorts abroad.)

[JimSEA]

In addition to gagging at the 40% academic achievement rule you rightly cited, I was strangely drawn to this headache inducing statement:

“Too many presidents at these institutions have a sense of being outside the general rules of shared governance,” she said.

[SkyPilot]

The net change leaves 47 colleges on the list of colleges “not observing the generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure.”

If you add to this "list" those colleges and universities that have unconstitutional PC speech codes, compounded by the intense harassment of conservative and Christian students by liberal professors, then we can add 400 more to the "list."

[Moose Dung]

"...association members said that they feared a general erosion of academic freedom in the CUNY system. Several cited the way the central administration and the leaders of Brooklyn College did not defend Timothy Shortell, a professor who was elected to chair the sociology department, but withdrew amid press criticism of his previous writings that harshly criticized religious people."

Timothy Shortell is a Ward Churchill wannabe that writes about how it was the fault of Jews, Christians, and the US in general that the twin towers were attacked. And that it was an appropriate response by the oppressed peoples of the world (you know, the ones that wouldn't exist except for the US). In addition, he regularly consorts with folks that advocate the violent overthrow of the US Government.

In his 'scholarly' writings, he advances the notion that it is the IDEA of EVIL (rooted in Judeo-Christian ideology) that CAUSES EVIL. His conclusion is that if we stopped thinking, believing and speaking about evil, it would disappear. More specifically, if there were no Christianity or Judaism there would be no evil.

Guess what? This stuff didn't play to well in Brooklyn. People got pissed off, he then responded by calling his detractors "Moral Retards" -- which didn't help the situation -- and CUNY canned him.

The truly amazing part of the whole story is that the flaming liberal administration of CUNY had the balls to kick him out.

dung.

[jim macomber]

"The main issue in the report was the dismissal of Mohamed Yousry from his position as an adjunct at York College of CUNY. Yousry lost his position after he was indicted on charges of assisting terrorist organizations through his work translating Arabic for a lawyer who was the main target of the indictment."

The AAUP also stood behind Sami Al-Arian and threatened to censure USF if they suspended him. The AAUP chapter, headed by a professor who blamed the situation on "right wing yahoos", was quoted then as saying, "the investigating committee believes that Professor Al-Arian's statements fell well within the (bounds) of academic freedom..."

[Enterprise]

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