Last week the American Association of University Professors announced the removal of censure from four institutions and did not place a single institution on censure at its 2003 annual meeting; it was the first time that no censure had been invoked in 37 years. That got me thinking (?). I teach at a public 2-year-college that has been on the AAUP Censure List for 35 years.

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Censured Administrations
1930-2002

The following record is a companion piece to the feature article "The AAUP's Censure List" about the history of the AAUP's censure list. The citations below refer to the Association's journal. From its first appearance in 1915 until 1978, it was published under the title Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. Since February 1979, it has been titled Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP. For the period 1930-81, the page numbers in the journal are consecutive from one issue to the next for each calendar year, and the citations therefore refer to a year, a volume number, and page numbers. Starting in 1982, the consecutive page numbers are limited to each issue of the journal, so the citations refer to a year, volume number, issue number, and page numbers.

Investigating Institution Committee Report Censure Imposed Censure Removed

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Amarillo College (TX) 1967, v.53, 292–302 1968, v.54, 172–73 BLANK
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You are known by the company you keep. Amarillo College is among some of the sleaziest outfits in educationdom, or, academia as my educationist colleagues are wont to say. We are on probation because the prexy in the 1960s was a wacko akin to Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny. He didn't roll ball bearings in his hand, they rolled in his head. He fired another wacko without due process and proceeded to stiff the AAUP investigating committee. The committee had no choice.

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