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Censure List
Investigations by the American Association of University Professors of the administrations of the institutions listed below show that, as evidenced by a past violation, they are not observing the generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure approved by this Association, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and more than two hundred other professional and educational organizations which have endorsed the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
This list is published for the purpose of informing Association members, the profession at large, and the public that unsatisfactory conditions of academic freedom and tenure have been found to prevail at these institutions. Names are placed on or removed from this censure list by vote of the Association's annual meeting.
Placing the name of an institution on this list does not mean that censure is visited either upon the whole of the institution or upon the faculty, but specifically upon its present administration. The term "administration" includes the administrative officers and the governing board of the institution. This censure does not affect the eligibility of nonmembers for membership in the Association, nor does it affect the individual rights of members at the institution in question.
Members of the Association have often considered it to be their duty, in order to indicate their support of the principles violated, to refrain from accepting appointment to an institution so long as it remains on the censure list. Since circumstances differ widely from case to case, the Association does not assert that such an unqualified obligation exists for its members; it does urge that, before accepting appointments, they seek information on present conditions of academic freedom and tenure from the Association's Washington office and prospective departmental colleagues. The Association leaves it to the discretion of the individual, possessed of the facts, to make the proper decision.
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Institutions are listed in chronological order according to when their administrations were placed on the censure list. The list contains only administrations which are still under censure (many others have been removed from the list after improving their practices and procedures). Reports through 2009 were published in the AAUP Bulletin or Academe, and the issue of publication is indicated in the "Report Published" column. Starting in 2010, reports were published first on the AAUP Web site, in the month and year indicated in the "Report Published" column, with print publication following in the AAUP Bulletin of the same year. In rare cases, a supplemental report has been issued after the initial report. Clicking on the institution title will take you to a .pdf of the report.
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Institution Name |
Report Published |
Year |
Grove City College |
March '63, 15-24 |
1963 |
Frank Phillips College |
Dec. '68, 433-38 |
1969 |
Concordia Seminary |
April '75, 49-59 |
1975 |
Murray State University |
Dec. '75, 322-28 |
1976 |
State University of New York |
Aug. '77, 237-60 |
1978 |
Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas |
May '78, 93-98 |
1978 |
Nichols College |
May '80, 207-12 |
1980 |
Yeshiva University |
Aug. '81, 186-95 |
1982 |
American International College |
May-June '83, 42-46 |
1983 |
Metropolitan Community Colleges |
Mar.-Apr. '84, 23a-32a |
1984 |
Talladega College |
May-June '86, 6a-14a |
1986 |
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico |
May-June '87, 33-38 |
1987 |
Husson University |
May-June '87, 45-50 |
1987 |
Hillsdale College |
May-June '88, 29-33 |
1988 |
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary |
May-June '89, 35-45 |
1989 |
The Catholic University of America |
Sept.-Oct. 1989, 27-40 |
1990 |
Dean College |
May-June '91, 27-32 |
1992 |
Baltimore City Community College |
May-June '92, 37-41 |
1992 |
Loma Linda University |
May-June '92, 42-49 |
1992 |
Clarkson College |
May-June '93, 46-53 |
1993 |
North Greenville College |
May-June '93, 54-64 |
1993 |
Savannah College of Art and Design |
May-June '93, 65-70 |
1993 |
University of Bridgeport |
Nov.-Dec. '93, 37-45 |
1994 |
Benedict College |
May-June '94, 37-46 |
1994 |
Supplementary Report |
Jan.-Feb. '05, 51-54 |
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Bennington College |
Mar.-Apr. '95, 91-103 |
1995 |
Supplementary Report |
Jan.-Feb. '98, 70-75 |
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Alaska Pacific University |
May-June '95, 32-39 |
1995 |
St. Bonaventure University |
July-Aug. '95, 65-73 |
1996 |
National Park Community College |
May-June '96, 41-46 |
1996 |
Saint Meinrad School of Theology |
July-Aug. '96, 51-60 |
1997 |
Minneapolis College of Art and Design |
May-June '97, 53-58 |
1997 |
Brigham Young University |
Sept.-Oct '97, 52-71 |
1998 |
University of the District of Columbia |
May-June '98, 46-55 |
1998 |
Lawrence Technological University |
May-June '98, 56-62 |
1998 |
Johnson & Wales |
May-June '99, 46-50 |
1999 |
Albertus Magnus College |
Jan.-Feb. '00, 54-63 |
2000 |
Charleston Southern University |
Jan.-Feb. '01, 63-77 |
2001 |
University of Dubuque |
Sept.-Oct. '01, 62-73 |
2002 |
Meharry Medical College |
Nov.-Dec. '04, 56-78 |
2005 |
University of the Cumberlands |
Mar.-Apr. '05 99-113 |
2005 |
Virginia State University |
May-June, '05, 47-62 |
2005 |
Our Lady of Holy Cross College |
Jan.-Feb, 07, 60-68 |
2007 |
Bastyr University |
Mar.-Apr. '07, 106-120 |
2007 |
University of New Orleans |
May-June '07, 74-80 |
2007 |
Loyola University New Orleans |
May-June '07, 88-100 |
2007 |
Cedarville University |
May-June '09, 58-84 |
2009 |
Nicholls State University |
Nov-Dec '08, 60-69 |
2009 |
North Idaho College |
May-June '09, 85-92 |
2009 |
Stillman College |
March-April '09, 94-101 |
2009 |
Clark Atlanta University |
February 2010 |
2010 |
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston |
April 2010 |
2010 |
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