The American Association of University Professors, a national affiliate of the PSC, has weighed in on Pathways several times. They have warned CUNY against attacks on academic freedom and shared governance and raised faculty objections. Most recently, AAUP has written CUNY about the “inhospitable climate for academic freedom and faculty governance suggested by the resort to threats [at QCC].”
From the AAUP’s Website:
For more than ninety years the AAUP has been engaged in developing standards for protecting academic freedom and in working for the acceptance of these standards by the community of higher education. The Association has long been viewed as the authoritative voice of the academic profession in this regard. Statements, reports, and policies dealing with academic freedom, as well as with other key issues, are published in the AAUP’s Policy Documents and Reports, also known as the “Redbook.”
