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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nRemoving Faculty: Patterns and Processes of Retrenchment  \nand Restructuring  \nTimothy Reese Cain  \nErin A. Leach  \nUniversity of Georgia  \nThis article uses 30 years of investigatory and special reports by the American Association of University Professors’Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure to understand how retrenchment and restructuring practices have been enacted on ways detrimental to both individual and the corporate faculty. Informed by changes in the logics in higher education and broader understandings of retrenchment, we identified larger patterns of where retrenchment and restructuring in violation of academic norms took place. We further identified three main themes in the reports: Declaring Exigency and / or Launching Restructuring, Faculty Roles and Rights during Retrenchment/Restructuring, and Criteria Used in Removing Faculty. Together, they demonstrate how faculty were excluded from decisions to declare financial exigency or undertake restructuring, denied meaningful roles in enacting changes once exigency or restructuring had been announced, were targeted for removal in violation of tenure rights, and were denied academic due process.  \nKeywords: colleges, faculty careers, higher education, qualitative research, restructuring, retrenchment, tenure  \nu.S. higher education is experiencing a wave of restructuring and retrenchment. Numerous institutions have responded to the threats posed—and perceived opportunities provided—by the Covid-19 pandemic by dismissing faculty and other employees, closing academic programs, andreshaping their institutions. The university of Akron, for example, eliminated almost a hundred full-time faculty positions over the protest of its faculty union. Citing a $20 million budget shortfall, Canisius College laid off 22 full-time faculty members and eliminated academic programs. Medaille College discarded its faculty handbook and changed from a traditional tenure system to one of 3-year contracts. Numerous other college and universities have acted likewise, leading to a multi-institution investigation by the American Association of university Professors (AAuP) . In May 2021, it condemned the “opportunistic exploitationsof catastrophic events”(Bérubé et al., 2021, p. 2) through which institutions “close[d] programs and [laid] off faculty members as expeditiously as if colleges and universities were businesses whose CEOs suddenly decided to stop making widgets” (p. 3) . Although the scope of these activities has been stunning to many, the existence of such actions should not be—colleges and universities frequently retrench faculty and other workers in times of financial crisis, both real and alleged. While retrenchment can be undertaken thoughtfully in response to genuine financial exigency, it has often been weaponized for use against the faculty.  \nIn light of this ongoing crisis and the clear need for better recognition and understanding of how retrenchment can and  \nhas been used, we consider faculty retrenchment over the three decades leading up to these current events. We do so based on our analysis of reports by the AAuP’s Committee Aon Academic Freedom and Tenure and its Special Committee on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans universities. For more than a century, the AAuP has been a vital voice in higher education. Its foundational 1915 Declaration of Principles (Seligman et al., 1915/1954) outlined threats to academic freedom, rights to be protected, and professorial duties. The 1925 Conference Statement on Academic Freedom and Tenure (1925/1954), which the AAuP. negotiated primarily with the Association of American Colleges, was a step toward bridging","cbCaimCdZdaIzwHz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimCdZdaIzwHz","pdf",387909,13,"English","# Introduction\n## Background: Retrenc hment and restructuring in higher education\n## Study approach and sources\n# Historical framework of A.A.U.P. principles and statements\n## 1915 declaration and academic freedom protections\n## 1925 conference statement and tenure safeguards\n## 1940 statement and interpretive comments\n## 2018 recommended regulations\n# Identified patterns and three main themes","[{\"question\":\"What sources does the article use to analyze faculty retrenchment?\",\"answer\":\"It draws on 30 years of investigatory and special reports by the American Association of University Professors’ Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, including a special committee focused on Hurricane Katrina and universities in New Orleans.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the three main themes identified in the reports?\",\"answer\":\"The themes are: declaring exigency and/or launching restructuring, faculty roles and rights during retrenchment/restructuring, and the criteria used in removing faculty.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article characterize the treatment of faculty during retrenchment and restructuring?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that faculty are often excluded from decisions about financial exigency, denied meaningful roles once restructuring is announced, targeted for removal in violation of tenure rights, and denied academic due process.\"}]","Removing Faculty - Patterns and Processes of Retrenchment and Restructuring | PDF",1792068777,33]