AAUP Urges Faculty Role in Protecting Workers' Rights on Overseas Campuses

Autor/in	Schmidt, Peter
Titel	AAUP Urges Faculty Role in Protecting Workers' Rights on Overseas Campuses
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2009) 32, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	International Education; Academic Freedom; International Schools; Freedom of Speech; Intellectual Freedom; Position Papers; Professional Associations; College Faculty; Educational Administration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Akademische Freiheit; International school; Internationale Schule; Redefreiheit; Intellektuelle Unabhängigkeit; Positionspapier; Fakultät; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung
Abstract	The American Association of University Professors and its Canadian counterpart jointly issued a statement last week calling on colleges with campuses abroad to protect the rights of overseas workers and give faculty members more say in planning foreign programs. The statement, adopted by the AAUP's committee on academic freedom and tenure and the Canadian Association of University Teachers' Executive Committee, urges such colleges to take steps to ensure academic freedom and shared governance for professors abroad, and to adopt codes of conduct governing the workplace conditions of all nonacademic employees at such campuses, "especially if these workers are employed directly by a local contractor." The statement also says that faculty rights and the quality of instruction are threatened by overseas programs' heavy reliance on adjuncts who have been hired on temporary contracts. Experts on international education responded to the statement by saying it raises valuable issues, but makes some demands that do not reflect the reality of how colleges approach such ventures or the conditions they deal with in offering higher education in other countries. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10