Nebraska AAUP

The AAUP, ACLU, and other national bodies have issued a statement calling on universities to resist censorship prompted by threats of violence.

Among the many letters to the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star about the Regent's November 20th vote on an embryonic stem cell research policy, was one by Sarah Kelen on behalf of the Nebraska State Conference of the AAUP. The letter also appeared in the Omaha World Herald on the same day.

You can read it here; it's the third one on the page.

One year after the UNL administration cancelled a conference presentation by Prof. William Ayers, citing security concerns, Ayers addressed the annual meeting of AFCON at a meeting well-attended, but sparsely protested.

Nebraska AAUP member David Moshman (Educational Psychology, UNL) has recently published Liberty & Learning: Academic Freedom for Teachers and Students (Heinemann, 2009).

One year after being "disinvited" by the UNL administration, William Ayers will speak in Nebraska at he fall meeting of the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska (AFCON).

The Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska (AFCON) has drafted a Student Free Expression Bill for introduction in the Legislature. The purpose of this proposed bill is to protect students' and teachers' classroom speech from administrative censorship.

At the Spring Meeting of the Nebraska State Conference of the AAUP, new statewide officers were elected for 2010-2011.

Three members of the Nebraska State Conference traveled to Washington, D. C. to attend the National Meeting of the AAUP: Tom Coffey, Sarah Kelen, and Bob Kettlitz.