Financial exigency, academic governance, and related matters

Academe

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 104-112

  Woodward, William J ^a   Burchell, Eileen ^b   Wagner, Donald R ^c   Knight, Jonathan ^d  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^d NONE

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EID: 2442463274     PISSN: 01902946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/40252612     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. This description follows almost verbatim Richard J. Meisinger, Jr., and Leroy W. Dubeck, College and University Budgeting: An Introduction for Faculty and Academic Administrators (Washington, D.C.: National Association of College and University Business Officers, 1984), 4, 5. This handbook was sponsored by the AAUP and NACUBO.
2. "The Role of the Faculty in Budgetary and Salary Matters," in Policy Documents and Reports, 9th ed. (Washington, D.C.: American Association of University Professors, 2001), 232.
3. The full text of the 1966 "Statement," jointly formulated by the AAUP, the American Council on Education, and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, appears on pages 217-23 of Policy Documents and Reports.
4. Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors 11 (1925), 101.
5. The 1940 "Statement" does not specifically define financial exigency. For a comprehensive analysis of the financial exigency provision in the RIR, see Ralph S. Brown, Jr., "Financial Exigency," Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors 62 (1976), 5-19. See also David Fellman, "The Association's Evolving Policy on Financial Exigency," Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP (May-June 1984), 14-22.
6. The 1940 "Statement" does not specifically define financial exigency. For a comprehensive analysis of the financial exigency provision in the RIR, see Ralph S. Brown, Jr., "Financial Exigency," Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors 62 (1976), 5-19. See also David Fellman, "The Association's Evolving Policy on Financial Exigency," Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP (May-June 1984), 14-22.
7. See, for example, the report on Adelphi College (New York) in Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, 27 (1941), 494-517.
8. The published reports, with the issue of the AAUP's Academe (prior to 1979, the AAUP Bulletin) in parentheses, are as follows: Bloomfield College (spring 1974); City University of New York (April 1977); State University of New York (August 1977); University of Detroit (March 1978); University of Texas of the Permian Basin (May 1979); Harris-Stowe College (May 1981); Eastern Oregon State College (May-June 1982); University of Idaho (November-December 1982); Sonoma State University (May-June 1983); Sonoma State University (May-June 1983); Goucher College (May-June 1983); Goucher College (May-June 1983); Metropolitan Community Colleges (March-April 1984); University of Northern Colorado (May-June 1984); University of Northern Colorado (May-June 1984); Westminster College of Salt Lake City (November-December 1984); Temple University (May-June 1985); Jackson State University (May-June 1986); Southern Nazarene University (November-December 1986); Morgan State University (May-June 1987); San Diego State University (March-April 1993); North Greenville College (May-June 1993); University of Bridgeport (November-December 1993); Benedict College (May-June 1994); Bennington College (March-April 1995); Alaska Pacific University (May-June 1995); Essex Community College (May-June 1995); St. Bonaventure University (July-August 1995); University of the District of Columbia (May-June 1998); MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine (May-June 2000); and University of Dubuque (September-October 2001).
9. Burton R. Clark, "Faculty Authority," Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors 47 (1961), 299.
10. Browzin v. Catholic University of America, 527 F.2d 843 (D.C. Cir. 1975), cited in Ralph S. Brown, Jr., "Financial Exigency," Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors 62 (1976), 9. The court's observation was in the context of determining whether the university had properly applied its "suitable position" rule: "[a]n institution truly motivated only by financial considerations would not hesitate to place the tenured professor in another suitable position if one can be found, even if this means displacing a nontenured instructor." Regulation 4(c)(4) of the AAUP's RIR states that "[b]efore terminating an appointment because of financial exigency, the institution, with faculty participation, will make every effort to place the faculty member concerned in another suitable position within the institution."
11. Browzin v. Catholic University of America, 527 F.2d 843 (D.C. Cir. 1975), cited in Ralph S. Brown, Jr., "Financial Exigency," Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors 62 (1976), 9. The court's observation was in the context of determining whether the university had properly applied its "suitable position" rule: "[a]n institution truly motivated only by financial considerations would not hesitate to place the tenured professor in another suitable position if one can be found, even if this means displacing a nontenured instructor." Regulation 4(c)(4) of the AAUP's RIR states that "[b]efore terminating an appointment because of financial exigency, the institution, with faculty participation, will make every effort to place the faculty member concerned in another suitable position within the institution."
12. The nine reports are the City University of New York, the State University of New York, Eastern Oregon State College, the University of Idaho, Goucher College, San Diego State University, Bennington College, Alaska Pacific University, and Essex Community College. In one published report, the investigating committee dealt almost exclusively with the termination of tenured faculty appointments for reasons of program discontinuance. See "Academic Freedom and Tenure: Yeshiva University," Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP (August 1981), 186-95.
13. Academe: Bulletin of the AA UP (May-June 1983), 21.
14. The lists are also drawn from Meisinger and Dubeck, College and University Budgeting, 318-24, which, in turn, relied on Samuel G. Ginsburg, "120 Ways to Increase Income and Decrease Expenses," Business Officer (December 1982), 14-16.
15. The lists are also drawn from Meisinger and Dubeck, College and University Budgeting, 318-24, which, in turn, relied on Samuel G. Ginsburg, "120 Ways to Increase Income and Decrease Expenses," Business Officer (December 1982), 14-16.