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Written by cps
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Friday, 17 March 2006 |
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Over the past two years, the State University of New York Board of Trustees has been subject to one trustee’s myopic agenda to get SUNY to adopt an academic bill of rights. Trustee Candace de Russy—a true believer in the Horowitz agenda—has continuously argued for the need to implement this policy for SUNY. Despite the lack of any evidence that such a policy was required and little support from any other trustees, the de Russy squeaky wheel got some oil when a committee of five SUNY trustees met yesterday to hear testimony and determine if the system required such a policy (although de Russy herself was not on the committee).
As the Albany Times Union reports, SUNY got it right. The committee unanimously rejected the notion that an academic bill of rights was needed. “They did the responsible thing and looked at the facts rather than getting caught up in an ideological argument” said Bill Scheuerman, President of the United University Professions which represents all faculty and staff at SUNY. “Those facts demonstrated that this truly was a solution in search of a problem.” As Brian Fessler, a student trustee and UAlbany senior put it: “Students really don't have any feeling that they face a systemic problem of academic freedom in their classrooms."
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