Emory U. Faculty Calls for Review of Controversial Program Cuts

University officials shocked many faculty members at the Atlanta institution in September when they announced that several departments would be closed as part of a broad academic-restructuring plan. In a letter printed Tuesday in Emory’s student newspaper, leaders of the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors called for a review of that effort, saying that “the overall process appears to have shown substantial noncompliance with accepted procedural standards of academic governance.”

We ask that the administration delay further implementation of the announced changes pending full faculty review of the process by which these decisions were reached.

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