AAUP Today is a quarterly electronic newsletter of the American Association of University Professors. Most of the items in this newsletter correspond to articles and information posted on the AAUP Web site.
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Based on presentations from a May 1999 conference organized by the AAUP, the issue explores how the drive to contain costs at academic health centers has undercut key academic priorities such as research and teaching. Equally at risk are the tenure and compensation of medical school professors. The university president gave as the reason for abruptly relieving the religious studies professor of his teaching and administrative responsibilities her concern that he had publicly identified himself as a priest on leave from the Catholic church. She denied that the professor s sexual orientation influenced her decision. The committee advises institutions that graduate students should have the right to written terms of appointment, a voice in institutional governance, and access to grievance procedures and other professional safeguards appropriate to their status.