UNC-CH AAUP

On Air Today: Fighting for Tenure on Campus, with UNC's Michael Palm - Chapelboro.com UNC's Michael Palm discusses the Board of Trustees' recent delay on approving tenure applications - and faculty's demand for an explanation.

The UNC-CH AAUP chapter president sat down with 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck to discuss the fight for tenure at UNC. The AAUP has called on the BoT to explain an unusual months-long delay in approving tenure for dozens of faculty this year.

Listen to the discussion: chapelboro.com/the-aaron-ke...

#AAUP-UNCCH let's get out there! meet 11-1 at Peace and Justice Plaza, march to Carrboro starting at 1pm. Lux Libertas, let freedom ring🇺🇸

The expansion of SCiLL and the legislature’s design to exclude current UNC-CH faculty from planning and decision-making comes as other programs actually created by faculty and staffed by scholars with genuine disciplinary expertise will probably be placed on the chopping block

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“Why didn’t the board approve these faculty members in March? Why were humanities, social sciences, and professional school faculty targeted? What will be done to ensure this kind of delay does not happen again?”

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AAUP President asks for an explanation of tenure delay #organize #academicfreedom

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In addition to prohibiting UNC institutions from adopting sanctuary policies, SB 153 requires UNC to share staff and student citizenship info with law enforcement officials, which can then be shared with ICE. It's back in front of the state senate--call now!
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The incredibly highly skilled and decorated faculty at UNC-CH are not children and tenure is not a cookie. Lux Libertas Tim Blaine, not Crustulum Invidium.

After Delay, Chapel Hill Board Votes to Award Tenure After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed tenure.

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“It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one,” - Tim Blaine UNC Trustee 👀😱

#AAUP-UNC is out here fighting for you, faculty at our great university. Join up! Be a part of something bigger... it might be now or never.

UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Approve Delayed Tenure Cases The UNC-Chapel Hill Board approved 33 tenure cases following a delay that caused widespread concern among faculty.

@unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social and faculty could fight tenure delays because we are organized (yes, even in a state that explicitly outlaws collective bargaining for public workers). University folks, the time to join your local AAUP chapter/ labor union is now! #AcademicSky #NCPol

Dear UNC-CH Board of Trustees Chair Preyer and members of the Board: We are writing as concerned members of the UNC-CH chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). AAUP has a 100-year commitment to academic freedom. Ten days ago, faculty learned from Faculty Chair Moracco that at your May meeting the Board of Trustees (BOT) decided not to consider pending tenure and promotion recommendations other than those in Health Affairs schools. Further, no personnel actions have been approved from the College of Arts and Sciences this year, something that is highly unusual. Every continued delay threatens the very heart of our mission to “serve as a center for research, scholarship, and creativity,” denies students’ the enriching collegiate experiences they deserve, and erodes faculty trust in a fair and timely tenure process. We urge the BOT to reconsider its decision and move forward now with pending tenure and promotion actions. Promotion and tenure are central pillars of our university and universities around the nation. As you know, each promotion and tenure decision has been carefully vetted, with external letters obtained from experts in the faculty members field, followed by review at many levels. Faculty here are hired with an explicit expectation that if their teaching and scholarship meet the high standards of their Department, their College, and the Provost, they will be granted tenure. Students at UNC-CH and people across the state expect that our flagship university will recruit the best faculty in the nation. These actions threaten the bedrock foundations of Carolina and our status as a leading public university. Tenure is not something unique to Carolina but is the norm at virtually every college and university across the nation. Each time we search for a new faculty member, UNC-CH is competing with top universities across the nation, like our peers at Duke, Berkeley, or the University of Michigan. Further, tenured faculty members up fo…

@aaup.bsky.social & @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social act for faculty. Below is the letter we sent to the UNC-CH Board of Trustees today about their shocking decision to delay action on tenure & promotion recommendations except those from the Health Affairs schools. Join us to advocate for academic freedom.

Not a sly way of limiting tenure or faculty voice in tenure cases, right? Because that sure sounds like a way to limit academic freedom.

UNC chapel hill Board of Trustees deferred all personnel actions at their March meeting & refused to consider any faculty appointment & tenure cases from the College of Arts and Sciences at their full board meeting on 5/22/25. NO CASES FROM THE CAS HAVE BEEN APPROVED THIS YEAR. Why?

HAPPY MAY DAY!!!🌸 the perfect day for #unc-ch faculty to join the AAUP!!! unc-ch-aaup.org

The time for #UNC-CH to push back is NOW.

This isn’t limiting what researchers can do with funding, this is limiting the activities of universities *if* they receive funding.

(ii) They do not engage in and will not during the term of this award engage in, a discriminatory prohibited boycott.

(a) By accepting the grant award, recipients are certifying that:

(i) They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws; and

“(d) Discriminatory prohibited boycott means refusing to deal, cutting commercial relations, or otherwise limiting commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or with companies doing business in or with Israel.”

Yesterday the NIH publish new directive- grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Faculty at UNC, we need YOU.

Join the effort to protect international students at UNC!

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The UNC-CH chapter of the AAUP strongly and unequivocally condemns the targeting of international students and scholars.

In light of the April 8 revocation of six UNC student visas, we call on UNC-CH to take concrete steps to support students and scholars at risk:

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Read detailed notes from the March 27 UNC Faculty Town Hall organized by the UNC-CH chapter of the AAUP:

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HB 1705 Weakens Education Standards at Colleges and Universities Last Revised:  March 31, 2025

HB 1705 would weaken Texas higher education by removing SACS as the sole, shared accreditation agency.

Bill analysis ⬇️ aaup-texas.org/blog/f/hb-17...

JCPA wishes our Muslim friends a joyous Eid al-Fitr. May this holiday bring peace, happiness, and unity to all who celebrate. Eid Mubarak!

We need to organize to support the vulnerable in our community, we’re figuring out how organize here, now.

UNC AAUP chapter is having a great town hall discussing the risks that international scholars are facing on our campus.