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This bounced into my in-box this morning\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The emails we have sent out to faculty across the country to date have all dealt with current issues in the academy. It has always been our intention, however, to provide occasional lessons about AAUP history, especially when the past is still with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year is the tenth anniversary of one of the AAUP\u2019s more remarkable cases\u2013the 1998 censure of Brigham Young University.\u00a0<\/span>The full report<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is on our Web site. Let me give you a few highlights in the hope they will draw you there.<\/span><\/p>\n

A young faculty member was up for tenure at BYU. Though there was some discomfort with her feminist interests, her department gave her a strong recommendation based on her teaching, research, and citizenship, and that view was endorsed by the college. At the next level up\u2013the University Faculty Council\u2013the tone changed. Objections were voiced that she had violated the tenets of the Mormon Church<\/a>, most notably by publicly acknowledging that she prayed to \u201cHeavenly Mother as well as Heavenly Father.\u201d Hardly a confession that would earn you a newspaper headline in most American cities, but at BYU it led the Council to claim she had weakened the moral fiber of the university. They recommended against tenure and the BYU president concurred.<\/span><\/p>\n

The AAUP requires that any doctrinal limitations on academic freedom be laid out clearly in writing. We concluded that BYU had failed to do so adequately. Her statements on prayer constituted descriptions of her personal vision, not advocacy. The university also did not grant a hearing that adequately investigated her allegations that her academic freedom had been violated and that she was a victim of discrimination based on her sex.<\/span><\/p>\n

To the extent displeasure with her feminism had contributed to the tenure denial, her academic freedom had indeed been violated. But we could not get the BYU administration to reverse its decision. Our annual meeting voted to censure them in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many lessons in this case still relevant today. We often forget that very different value systems can prevail across thousands of American campuses. Continued vigilance is necessary to sustain national standards for academic freedom. That is the task the AAUP has taken on since
\n1915.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cary Nelson, AAUP President<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you only have time to read part of the link, go to the last few pages which contain the conclusion, and interestingly, BYU\u2019s two-page response. I\u2019m still digesting all of this, but it seems complicated and in the end turns not on whether BYU can restrict academic freedom \u2014 the AAUP agrees this is OK \u2014 \u00a0but whether BYU\u2019s described restrictions in this case were described clearly enough to warrant its actions.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve not looked at BYU\u2019s policies recently \u2014 are they any clearer today? Would Prof. Houston\u2019s actions still be grounds for non-continuance were they carried out this year?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"