VCU Chapter of AAUP

12/02/2021

Our letter to Dean Malat of the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences about our alarm at her removal of a department chair with no explanation--a chair in their second faculty-elected term who has the broad support of that department's faculty.

11/23/2021

A new report from the VCU Chapter of AAUP (bit.ly/VCUadmin) finds far too few tenure-track faculty and far too many management employees, all while enrollments are dropping:
* For every four tenure track faculty members at VCU, there are five administrators.
* Over the past two years the increase in the administrative salaries
has been covered almost entirely by a rise in student tuition revenue.
* The percentage of tenure-track faculty per total instructional employees is the lowest of any of our peer institutions.
* As VCU's enrollment has dropped, the number of management employees has increased almost 10% since 2019.

11/14/2021

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/11/12/colleges-shouldnt-require-faculty-record-their-lectures-opinion

It’s fine for faculty to choose to record lectures for students, but systems more or less foisted on them from the top down pose serious threats to academic freedom, argues Michael Schwalbe.

11/11/2021

An article from AAUP about how faculty governance is discussed by the nation's accrediting commissions, including the one for VCU, SACSCOC.
https://www.aaup.org/article/accrediting-commissions%E2%80%99-standards-faculty-governance #.YY1bB2DMLIU

09/02/2021

Another interview with AAUP-VCU Pres. Everett Carpenter about our letter to VCU admin regarding unvaxxed students.

A group of more than 120 VCU professors is voicing frustration with how the university is enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students and staff this fall.

09/02/2021

Interview with AAUP-VCU Pres. Everett Carpenter about our letter to VCU admin regarding unvaxxed students.

Virginia Commonwealth University is re-evaluating its policy to allow unvaccinated students to take in-person classes and live in university housing after some professors this week asked for a more strict

08/31/2021

https://richmond.com/news/local/education/most-virginia-colleges-say-they-mandated-covid-vaccines-but-not-all-are-enforcing-their-policy/article_569fe0fc-8fa8-575f-b0b9-73c0b88b254a.html

VCU isn't removing unvaccinated, noncompliant students from campus. UR allows students to receive a personal exemption.

07/28/2021

While academe helped create the theoretical groundswell that mainstreamed inequity as a problem, it must now ready the next crop of Ph.D.s to lead the social-change charge, Yulia Chuvileva and Sarah Lyon argue.

03/25/2021

We're conducting a survey of all faculty (adjunct, term, tenure-track and tenured) about on faculty governance, promotion and tenure! Keep a look out in your VCU email (including your spam folder). Didn't get it? Email the AAUP VCU Chapter President Everett E Carpenter at [email protected].

02/26/2021

WRIC-TV 8News in Richmond wrote a story on our recent letter to VCU administration about our concerns regarding returning to in-person learning next week.

VCU students and staff are set to resume in-person and hybrid courses on March 4. A group of VCU professors are now speaking out about this decision.

02/24/2021

Here's our letter to VCU Pres. Rao, Provost Hackett and others sent today questioning why faculty had no voice in the decision to return to in-person learning March 4, why we're returning at all, and the disruption this will cause to our students.

02/20/2021

And VCU is going back to face-to-face classes on March 4!?

The University of Virginia reported more than 600 new cases among students this week.