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 5/10 Good --- www.thepetitionsite.com http://www.thepetitionsite.com/human-rights/civil-rights/rss
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Monday, July 21, 2008 --- 30 days ago http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/protect-free-speech
| The following petition was drafted by Academics for Justice and will be sent with signatures to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the North Carolina AAUP (NC-AAUP), and North Carolina State University (NCSU) Chancellor James L. Oblinger. In March 2008, Dr. Terri Ginsberg filed a Grievance Petition with the NCSU Faculty for alleged violations of First Amendment rights and other rights guaranteed under the University Code that were perpetrated by senior, administrative colleagues during her employment there as a one-year, non-tenure-track Assistant Professor with possibility of renewal. These alleged violations constituted concerted attacks on Dr. Ginsberg%u2019s academic speech supporting Palestinian rights and legitimacy and criticizing U.S. and Israeli policy in the Middle East, and they culminated in her non-reappointment to her position at NSCU. Despite strong, legally grounded recommendations on the part of James Martin, NCSU Faculty Chair, that Dr. Ginsberg%u2019s case should be given a fair hearing on campus, NCSU Chancellor James L. Oblinger chose in June 2008 to dismiss her case upon the basis of an Appeal he was sent by the Grievance Petition%u2019s named respondents which argued, erroneously, that the Petition was filed too late, and that, moreover, as contingent faculty, Dr. Ginsberg had no right to grieve under the University Code. Whereas the national AAUP and the NC-AAUP had been providing Dr. Gi ... |
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