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A FACE To Launch a Thousand Hits
The AFT's Faculty and College Excellence Web site just got a face lift, so to speak. Along with a new, easier-to-use design, the site now incorporates the popular blog, FACE Talk, on its main page. But don't take our word for it. Go to the site yourself.

American Academic March 08Faculty Diversity in Higher Education: Perspectives on race, ethnicity, gender and disability
The March 2008 issue of American Academic examines the conundrum of faculty diversity. It explores the subject from a variety of vantage points, offering a sampling of the research, activism and debate under way today.

Academic Freedom StatementRead the AFT's New Statement on Academic Freedom
In response to ongoing political attacks on higher education faculty and staff, as well as the increasing reliance on contingent faculty who have little or no academic freedom protections, the AFT has just released Academic Freedom in the 21st-Century College and University: Academic Freedom for All Faculty and Instructional Staff. To learn more, read the press release and the full statement.

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FACE Campaign

Faculty and College Excellence
Joint AFT's FACE campaign to ensure that contingent faculty members receive the financial and professional support they need to do their best work and to establish a better balance between the number of full-time tenured faculty and contingent faculty. Keep track of all FACE-related activities and materials at the FACE Web site.

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Free Exchange on Campus
AFT is a founding member of Free Exchange on Campus, a broad coalition of student, faculty and civil rights groups committed to advocating for the rights of students and faculty to hear and express a full range of ideas unencumbered by political or ideological interference. Free Exchange is working to oppose ideological agendas like the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights." You can lend your voice to this important effort by joining Free Exchange on Campus.

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Academic Freedom Forum
Click here for the hyperlinked version of the new AFT On Campus column.
Long a champion of academic freedom, the AFT now offers regular news reports of the battle to preserve this fundamental right.

AFT and Academic Freedom
AFT believes that academic freedom is the fundamental tenet upon which our system of higher education is built. Legislative initiatives such as the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights" are designed to attack that principle. To help faculty, staff and students address these attacks, AFT has created an Opposition Tool Kit that includes background on academic freedom and the academic bill of rights, AFT resolutions, and sample testimony.

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