Misericordia AAUP Chapter

The Misericordia University Board and administration claim that it was necessary to suspend tenure decisions because tenure is a financial issue.

Let's check the facts:
- Fact: Tenure protects academic freedom, the collective right to teach, create scholarship, and speak when acting as academic professionals, without institutional censorship or discipline
- Fact: Tenured professors can be fired for doing a bad job ("for cause") or laid off when the university is in financial exigency
- Fact: Tenure costs nothing. A professor could be tenured without any pay increase whatsoever
- Fact: Tenure is a right, not a privilege

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Get the Facts!

The Misericordia University administration claims faculty must be fired because the student-to-faculty ratio is too low. What are the facts?
• Fact: The university uses the "too low" student-to-faculty ratio to advertise! A low student-to-faculty ratio is used to indicate small classes and the personal attention from professors that makes Misericordia a great place to learn
• Fact: Most of the faculty who have been fired in 2020-21 are in programs that have had the smallest drops in their student-to-faculty ratios
• Fact: Misericordia's student-to-faculty ratio is comparable to the ratios for our peer institutions

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