On the 21st: We explored why the state seems so divided along partisan lines. We also talked about the University of Chicago's letter to incoming freshmen about trigger warnings and safe spaces, and learned about a new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
The AAUP voted Saturday to censure the Urbana campus over its decision not to hire Steven Salaita.
Since November, U of I has repeatedly denied the FOIA requests for the emails citing that producing the documents would be unduly burdensome. Salaita’s attorney Anand Swaminathan said the issue was never about burden, but rather about access.
The latest disapproving report from the American Association of University Professors offers familiar complaints and also paves the way for the organization to hold a censure vote against the university later this spring.
Hill was to have given the keynote address at the Faculty Women of Color in the Academy conference next month at the Urbana campus. She was also scheduled to give a lecture.
