Emory University Faculty Calls for Review of Controversial Program Cuts

In today’s Chronicle —

University officials shocked many faculty members at the Atlanta institution in September when they announced that several departments would be closed as part of a broad academic-restructuring plan. In a letter printed Tuesday in Emory’s student newspaper, leaders of the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors called for a review of that effort, saying that “the overall process appears to have shown substantial noncompliance with accepted procedural standards of academic governance.”

Source: EMORYWHEEL
We ask that the administration delay further implementation of the announced changes pending full faculty review of the process by which these decisions were reached.

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