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Roanoke Times notes AAUP criticism

Roanoke Times, July 13, 2020

Radford University’s board of visitors is facing continued backlash for its resolution in early June to give President Brian Hemphill unilateral budget -cutting powers, including suspending guidelines outlined for such procedures in the faculty handbook.

The latest critic of the June 12 board resolution is the nonprofit American Association of University Professors, which sent a letter through its RU Chapter President Glen Martin, a tenured professor who has been at Radford since 1985. Martin then forwarded the letter, along with his own email, to board Rector Robert Archer, and other board members….