Joan Scott WGST Keynote
Joan Scott, WGST 50th Anniversary Keynote, Thurs, September 18th,
3pm, Hyde Hall.
Scott is a longtime AAUP stalwart and the author of, among many other
books, Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom (2019). See the
flyer
for the event.
Academic Freedom Hotline
Stay tuned for more details about this important resource for
faculty. The hotline will be answered by attorneys from Stevens,
Martin, Vaughn and Tadych, North Carolina's leading First Amendment
firm, and from their partners. The hotline will address academic
freedom problems and questions faced by faculty and then help faculty
consider their options, including legal representation. The hotline
will be available to all faculty. Stevens, Martin, Vaughn and Tadych
has for many years staffed a hotline for the North Carolina Press
Association and assisted journalists around the state with First
Amendment violations. We plan to share phone and email information
soon. Hearty thanks to Tori Ekstrand for your initiative, hard work,
and leadership!
First Amendment Event at UNC in October
Featuring AAUP members. Details here: What’s at Stake?: The First
Amendment Freedom to Protect
Democracy
Meet-Up Volunteer Needed
We’d like to host an informal chapter meet up at Namu in October. We
plan to use this event to celebrate our colleagues whose tenure and
promotions were delayed last Spring.
We still need to identify a date, inform Namu, and share information
with the mailing list and colleagues. If you can help, please email
Abbey at abbeyhatcher@gmail.com.
Academic Freedom Rally in November
We're working with local activists groups who are planning a rally in
November in support of academic freedom. If you'd like to help, email
Megan Winget at megan.winget@gmail.com.
Good work by UNCC-AAUP
After public pressure from the UNC-Charlotte AAUP, Customs and Border
Patrol withdrew from a career fair on campus. Read about it at the
Niner
Times
and read the chapter’s
op-ed.
Chapter Organizing
We're identifying chapter liaisons for departments and academic
units. If you'd like to volunteer, contact Erik Gellman at
esgellman@gmail.com.
Two Ways to Help
- Volunteer for AAUP Hill Day
9/17-9/18
- Email Senator Tillis and other reps to protect research
funding
(takes 30 seconds)
Know Your Rights, Monday September 8th @ Noon-1 PM, Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
Today (Monday 9/8) at noon our chapter and UE 150 are co-hosting a
presentation, “Know Your Rights around Immigration and Immigrants in
Your Community.” It will cover the legal rights and options that
faculty, students, workers, and community residents have in such
circumstances.
Faculty First Responders Webinar, Monday September 15th @ Noon
We have a Direct Action for Academic Freedom webinar with Faculty
First Responders scheduled for
next Monday at noon. Please invite your colleagues and register at the
following link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/b6ZavKP9RJWFF6sd1Gt61A
Mural Censorship Update
The DTH published an article about the screenprinting event last
Wednesday. We're planning another one with the Art Department.
October: Meet-Up Volunteer Needed
We'd like to host an informal chapter meet up at Namu in October. We
need a volunteer to identify a date, inform Namu, and share
information with the mailing list. Could it be you? If you can help,
please email Abbey at abbeyhatcher@gmail.com.
November: Academic Freedom Rally
We're working with local activists groups who are planning a rally in
November in support of academic freedom. If you'd like to help, email
Megan Winget at megan.winget@gmail.com.
Two Ways to Help
- Volunteer for AAUP Hill Day 9/17-9/18
- Email Senator Tillis and other reps to protect research
funding
(takes 30 seconds)
On the night before the start of Fall 2025 semester, facilities
workers at UNC-Chapel Hill boarded over and subsequently removed a
student- and community-created mural in Hanes Art Center. The mural
was initiated and created by several students in the undergraduate
course Studio Art 490: Art as Social Action, with help from other
students across campus. No Art Department faculty were consulted
before the mural was covered and removed, and no one has taken
responsibility for this censorship.
The American Association of University Professors North Carolina and
the UNC-Chapel Hill chapter of the AAUP call on Chancellor Lee Roberts
and Interim Provost Jim Dean to restore the mural and publicly explain
how the decision to remove it was made and by whom.
See the full UNC-CH AAUP statement on mural censorship at
UNC.
AAUP North Carolina and the UNC Chapel Hill chapter of AAUP stand in
solidarity with the professors and students whose academic freedom and
free speech rights were violated by the cover-up, removal, and
destruction of the student-created mural "I told you I loved you (Gaza
Solidarity)."
The campus community is invited to print T-shirts and posters bearing
the quote from poet June Jordan that appears prominently on the mural:
I told you I loved you and I wanted genocide to stop.
Meet outside Hanes Art Center, where the mural was located, at 3pm on
Wednesday, September 3. Bring a blank t-shirt if you'd like to
screenprint.
