Pratt
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“Any woman in my position has
seen the struggles too many women
nave faced of being fully able to enter
into the professional life while jug
gling other roles and expectations that
society has placed on her.”
Behind this woman of policies,
politics and responsibilities lies an
artist, a musician and a poet.
Pratt said her artistic interests bal
anced her work.
“I need the two to balance myself,”
she said. “We all have to live in the
world, but we each need a place to
ourselves.”
She has found her niche as head of
the 45,000-mcmber AAUP, which
works to defend academic freedom
\ and professors’ tenure.
By creating policies and investi
gating possible violations of academic
f freedom and tenure on cammisss
across the United States, she said, the
AAUP sets standards for the condi
tions in which faculty work. The asso
ciation makes sure structures and sala
ries remain fair for professors and
ethical conduct is ensured. ,
“ We keep track of what is happen
ing in higher education and what sort
of things are affecting budget, em
ployment and professional practice to
protect the quality of life of the pro
fessor,” Pratt said.
Most of the standards by which
universities operate, such as protect
ing the rights of free thinking and free
speech on campus, arc AAUP stan
dards designed to protect academic
freedom, she said.
“Much of what we do by way of
investigations and policy recommen
dations are designed to protect aca
demic freedom and faculty who might
be charged with something that vio
lated their academic freedom,” Pratt
said.
“A professor has to have the right
to teach or research a subject that
might be controversial to someone.”
If a professor’s contract is termi
nated because of an infringement of
his or her academic freedom, Pratt
said, the AAUP will investigate and
publish the results.
“We’re not having many outra
geous violations of academic free
dom in this country,” she said. “But
we are in danger of having deep vio
lations of tenure because of budget
cuts.”
Pratt said some schools had re
sponded to budget cuts by trying to
terminate tenured faculty.
“When you start terminating your
tenured faculty, you take away the
protection of tenure, and ... it be
comes a less stable thing,” she said.
“If a faculty member can’t feel
secure that their tenure is there, as
long as they arc doing a good job, they
feel more vulnerable, and that affects
Chambers
Continued from Page 1
aid they are eligible for — will be in
violation of NCAA rules if they play
against Utah in Nebraska’s season
opener Saturday at Memorial Sta
s dium.
But state law prevents coaches from
keeping players out of competition
for the sole purpose of avoidi ng NCAA
rules violations. i
Chambers said there was a viable .
solution.
“The athletic department finally
admitted that the only program af
fected by the bill is their walk-on
program,”he said. “They should abol
ish it, and stop luring impoverished
young men to make money for the
university and none for themselves.”
The players are lost in the shuffle
when the university and the NCAA
arc at odds, he said, and arc ultimately
the ones who suffer.
Chambers said athletic department
officials had been too busy “breast
beating, whining and pulling their
hair out” over the NCAA’s action and
hadn’t spent enough lime finding so
lutions to the problem. -
“What irritates me is that the uni
versity made a last-minute request to
the NCAA for an interpretation on the
rule,” he said. “This case has been
pending for a long lime.”
Chambers said the athletic depart
ment needed to assume more respon
sibility for its student-athletes.
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their ability to speak and write freely.”
The A AUPalso is looki ng at issues
concerning the fiscal crisis, Pratt said.
The association is gathering informa
tion from all slates to publish a regular
update on what officials on different
campuses arc doing about budget
woes.
Classroom overload, cuts in fac
ulty and programs, and the acute prob
lem of access to classes and higher
-tt
A professor has to
have the right to teach
or research a subject
that might be contro
versial to someone
— Pratt
AAUP president
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education, she said, are factors affect
ing universities across the nation.
* Slates that once had stable budgets
— that could cover the expenses of
public education — are finding their
budgets drained by the added burden
of paying for federal programs, Pratt
said.
Many students at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, she said, already
have felt the pressure of not being able
to get the courses they want and sit
ting in overcrowded classes.
“Many other institutions have an
even more acute problem with that
than Nebraska docs,” she said.
The danger of having an education
system that lacks funding and a public
that needs more higher education,
Pratt said, is an increase in tuition and
more restrictive admissions standards.
“You justcan’t have it both ways,”
she said. “You can’t cut it back finan
cially and expand it to meet the public
demand at the same time.
“The reductions in funding higher
education across the United States are
posing very serious problems for the
life of higher education.”
The AAUP is organizing a travel
ing group of staff and faculty mem
bers who have had experience dealing
with the fiscal crisis.
By visiting different campuses,
Pratt said, the group will help indi-v
vidual universities deal with budget
cuts, professional ethics and other
education dilemmas.
The AAUP has members from all
fifty states and territories, she said.
Eastern European countries have rd*
quested advice from the association
on how to run their systems.
“Now that those countries and uni- (
versifies are free to shape their own
policies,” Pratt said, “we’ve had a lot <
of contact from Eastern European
universities (that) want us to advise '
them on how to write policies to pro
tect academic freedom and tenure.”
NCAA
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But, he said, “if we don’t hear
anything, then no news is good news.”
Dutcher said he was unsure what
type of sanction UNL would receive
if it was found guilty of the violation.
Al Papik, assistant athletic direc
tor for compliance and administration
it UNL, said he was uncertain what
■oute he would lake if three or four
iTomhusker players accepted their aid. 1
ASUN supports
Chinese activist
From Staff Repons
ASUN has joined University of
Nebraska at Kearney students in sup
port of Chinese pro-democracy dem
onstrator Shen Tong.
Andrew Sigerson, presidentof the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, Trent Steele, first
vice president, and ASUN senators
signed a petition at Wednesday’s
ASUN meeting condemning the Chi
nese government’s arrest of Tong,
who was taken into custody/Tuesday
in Beijing.
Tong, 24, was a leader of the stu
dent pro-democracy movement and
one of the organizers of the 1989
Tiananmen Square demonstrations.
He had been back in China for one
month when he was arrested.
The students plan to send the peti
tions, including one signed by the
University of Nebraska at Omaha stu
dent government, to U.S. senators,
President Bush and the Chinese Em
bassy.
Steele said he hoped the petition
made a diflercncc, and he was happy
to see Nebraska’s universities work
ing together.
“It’s good to be working with our
friends at UN K,”hc said. “Hopefully,
working together we can make things
happen.”
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