Salaita firing lands Univ. of Illinois on AAUP censure list

posted on: Jun 15, 2015

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has formally censured the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) over its firing last summer of Steven Salaita for criticizing Israel on Twitter.

The action, by a vote of delegates at the AAUP’s annual conference in Washington, DC, on Saturday, places UIUC among just 56 institutions currently on the censure list out of thousands of colleges and universities in the United States.

“Censure by the AAUP informs the academic community that the administration of an institution has not adhered to generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure,” according to a press release from the organization that counts tens of thousands of university and college educators and graduate students as members.

Just three other institutions suffered the ignominy of being added to the censure list this year and one was taken off.

Hisses
Cary Nelson, a past president of the AAUP and a “faculty fellow” for the Zionist group the Israel on Campus Coalition, was reportedly hissed when he urged conference delegates to oppose censure of UIUC.

Source: electronicintifada.net