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By Todd Wolfson, Daniel Martinez-HoSang, Jan Hochadel, Randi Weingarten
American Association of University Professors, American Federation of Teachers
The AAUP, AFT Connecticut, and the national AFT call on Yale University to reject any negotiated settlement with the Trump administration that would compromise academic freedom, shared governance, due process, or institutional independence. Yale has legal and moral obligations to comply with civil rights law and to protect students, faculty, staff, and patients from discrimination, but those obligations cannot be fulfilled through a closed-door agreement that gives federal officials continuing leverage over admissions, hiring, curriculum, research, medical practice, campus speech, student discipline, or faculty governance.
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The recent report on the state of scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences has renewed the debate over the internal politicization of academe. As one of its authors (speaking only for myself), I find the report relatively tepid.
Can faculty lead the reform of higher education from the inside — and if so, who checks whom?
Anonymous sources told The New York Times that Yale has sought a deal with the federal government to end an investigation into its undergraduate and graduate admissions, and has hired the law firm that helped the University of Virginia settle last fall.
