by AAUP National
March 5, 2022
The governing Council of the AAUP has voted to censure the University System of Georgia (USG) for the unilateral action of its administration and governing board to remove the protections of tenure and academic freedom from the system’s post-tenure review policy. The Council acted on the recommendation of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
Last October the USG board of regents adopted changes to the system’s post-tenure review policy that make it possible to fire tenured faculty members without affording them a dismissal hearing. The move was condemned by the AAUP for effectively abolishing tenure in Georgia’s public colleges and universities in flagrant violation of long established principles on academic freedom and tenure that have been endorsed by more than 250 scholarly societies and higher education organizations. (See the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure).