Academic Freedom and Tenure (Committee A)

Promotes principles of academic freedom, tenure, and due process in higher education through the development of policy documents and reports relating to these subjects and the application of those principles to particular situations that are brought to its attention. The staff is authorized to receive, on behalf of the committee, complaints of departures from these standards and, where appropriate, to undertake formal investigations. Such investigations may lead to a recommendation from the committee to the Association’s national council and annual meeting that the administration of an institution be censured for failure to adhere to the principles of academic freedom and tenure as endorsed by the AAUP and hundreds of other professional and educational organizations. Read Committee A reports or investigative reports.

Committe A Members
David M. Rabban (Law)
University of Texas at Austin, chair, 2009

Ronald G. Atlas (Biology)
University of Louisville, 2009

Linda Collins (Sociology)
Los Medanos College, 2008

Sheldon Krimsky (Biomedical Ethics and Science Policy)
Tufts, 2009

Susan E. Meisenhelder (English)
California State University, San Bernardino, 2009

David Montgomery (History)
Yale University, 2009

Adolph L. Reed (Political Science)
University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Andrew T. Ross (American Studies)
New York University, 2009

Christopher M. Storer (Philosophy)
De Anza College, 2008

Mary L. Heen (Law)
University of Richmond, ex officio as general counsel, 2008

Cary Nelson (English)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ex officio as president, 2008

Ernst Benjamin (Political Science)
ex officio as general secretary

Joan E. Bertin (Public Health)
Columbia University, consultant, 2010

Matthew W. Finkin (Law)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, consultant, 2009

Robert A. Gorman (Law)
University of Pennsylvania, consultant, 2010

Jeffrey Halpern (Anthropology)
Rider University, consultant, 2009

Robert C. Post (Law)
Yale University, consultant, 2010

Lawrence S. Poston (English)
University of Illinois at Chicago, consultant, 2010

Gregory Scholtz (English)
Wartburg College, liaison from ASC, 2010

Jonathan Knight, staff

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