Dedicated to academic freedom and shared governance while promoting higher education's contribution to the common good.
Dedicated to academic freedom and shared governance while promoting higher education's contribution to the common good.
Annual report by TU-AAUP on the state of shared governance and academic freedom at the University of Tulsa
On February 1st, TU-AAUP members, along with students from the TU Honors Program, gathered at the Zarrow Center for a conversation with John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. (The book was an inspiration for the HBO documentary The Inventor.) Carreyrou, who was in town for a BookSmart Tulsa event, engaged the group in a lively discussion on a range of themes including the broad economic forces shaping the Silicon Valley culture and the practices of administrative overconfidence and ineptitude driving the downfall of Theranos and organizations like it.
TU-AAUP thanks John Carreyrou for his participation and looks forward to partnering with both BookSmart Tulsa and the TU Honors Program for future events!
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country's colleges and universities.
Protecting academic freedom is the AAUP's core mission. Academic freedom is the indispensable requisite for unfettered teaching and research in institutions of higher education. As the academic community's core policy document states, "institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interest of ei
Protecting academic freedom is the AAUP's core mission. Academic freedom is the indispensable requisite for unfettered teaching and research in institutions of higher education. As the academic community's core policy document states, "institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interest of either the individual teacher or the institution as a whole. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition."
Since its founding, the AAUP has been ensuring meaningful faculty participation in institutional governance emphasizing the importance of faculty involvement in personnel decisions, selection of administrators, preparation of the budget, and determination of educational policies.