83-459: AAUP may refer to: American Association of University Professors , an organization of professors and other academics Association of University Presses , an association of mostly North American university presses Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title AAUP . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
166-739: A 180-room campus hotel and conference center. The University of Utah Asia Campus opened as an international branch campus in the Incheon Global Campus in Songdo , Incheon , South Korea in 2014. Three other European and American universities are also participating. The Asia Campus was funded by the South Korean government. In 2015, the university helped open the Ensign College of Public Health in Kpong, Ghana. In 2019,
249-596: A 330-kilowatt system on the rooftop of the Natural History Museum of Utah and a 262-kilowatt system at the HPER East building. The combined arrays annually produce 1,096,340 kilowatt hours, and are supported by a student fee sustainability program established in 2008. On November 1, 2019, the university entered into a renewable energy partnership with Rocky Mountain Power and Cyrq Energy which allows
332-463: A conference without an automatic Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bid to go to a BCS bowl game. The team ended its perfect 12–0 season ranked 4th in AP polling. 2008–2009 was another undefeated year for the football team, coached by Kyle Whittingham , as they finished the season 13–0 and defeated Alabama 31–17 in the 2009 Sugar Bowl . Utah finished the season 2nd in AP polling, their highest rank ever. At
415-580: A farmers market, and student groups, as well as a branch of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective . Sustainability and transportation are also a large part of the university's campus master plan. The Sustainable Endowments Institute gave the university a "B+" in its College Sustainability Report Card 2011, with A's for climate change and energy , food and recycling, student involvement, and transportation. The expanded recycling program launched on July 1, 2007. Since its launch,
498-488: A forum for political theorists to share their newest theoretical work, and is home to the Hinckley Institute of Politics , which places more than 350 students every year in local, state, national, and global internships. The university's Turkish Studies Program, funded by Turkish Coalition of America and headed by M. Hakan Yavuz , has been criticized for promoting Armenian genocide denial . Nevertheless,
581-595: A housing complex for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. Multiple large improvements were made to the university prior to the events, including extensive renovations to the Rice-Eccles Stadium , a light rail line leading to downtown Salt Lake City, a new student center known as the Heritage Center, an array of new student housing, and what is now
664-479: A low of 3,418 during the last year of World War II, but A. Ray Olpin made substantial additions to campus following the war, and enrollment reached 12,000 by the time he retired in 1964. Growth continued in the following decades as the university developed into a research center for fields such as computer science and medicine. During the 2002 Winter Olympics , the university hosted the Olympic Village,
747-536: A new structure and has started as a debt-free program. The new school enrolled its first students for the fall semester of 2013 and averages the same cost as the university's medical school tuition. The S.J. Quinney College of Law , founded in 1913, was the only law school in Utah until the 1970s. The law school was ranked the #28 best law school in the country in the 2024 U.S. News "Best Law Schools" rankings. The University of Utah ( University of Utah Hospital ) has
830-474: A number of reports on contingent faculty : in 2008, a report on accreditors' guidelines pertaining to part-time faculty and a report of an investigation involving alleged violations of the academic freedom and due process rights of a full-time contingent faculty member; and in 2006, an index providing data on the number of contingent faculty at various colleges. Also in 2006, the AAUP adopted a new policy dealing with
913-854: A secretary, later a general secretary, and most recently an executive director, and includes the following individuals: University of Utah The University of Utah ( the U , U of U , or simply Utah ) is a public research university in Salt Lake City , Utah , United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret , 25 years before Brigham Young University and making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education. The university received its current name in 1892, four years before Utah attained statehood, and moved to its current location in 1900. It
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#1732773160497996-622: Is "Utah Man" , commonly played at athletic games and other university events. In 1996, Swoop was introduced as the new mascot of the University of Utah. Because of relationships with the local Ute Indians, Utah adopted a new mascot. While still known as the Utes, Utah is now represented by the Red-tailed Hawk known for the use of his tail feathers in Ute head-dresses, and said he "Reflects
1079-530: Is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation , the university received $ 670 million in research and development funding in 2022, ranking it 47th in the nation. The university's health care system includes four hospitals, including the University of Utah Hospital and Huntsman Cancer Institute , along with twelve community clinics and specialty centers such as
1162-631: Is a loop of buildings named after past university presidents with a courtyard in the center. Major libraries on lower campus include the J. Willard Marriott Library and the S.J. Quinney Law Library . The primary student activity center is the A. Ray Olpin University Union, and campus fitness centers include the Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Complex (HPER) and the Eccles Student Life Center. Lower campus
1245-555: Is also home to most public venues, such as the Rice-Eccles Stadium , the Jon M. Huntsman Center , and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts , a museum with rotating exhibitions and a permanent collection of American, European, African, and Asian art. Venues for performing arts include Kingsbury Hall , used for touring companies and concerts, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, used by the professional Pioneer Theatre Company , David P. Gardner Hall, used by
1328-516: Is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States . AAUP membership includes over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations. The AAUP's stated mission is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education , and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good . Founded in 1915 by Arthur O. Lovejoy and John Dewey ,
1411-685: Is home to the Genetic Science Learning Center, a resource which educates the public about genetics through its website. The University of Utah was one of the original four nodes of ARPANET , the world's first packet-switched network and embryo of the current worldwide Internet. The School of Computing produced many of the early pioneers in computer science and graphics , including Turing Award winner Alan Kay , Pixar founder Ed Catmull , Atari founder Nolan Bushnell , and Adobe founder John Warnock . Notable innovations of computer science faculty and alumni include
1494-890: Is not a servicing parent organization. All of its affiliates (at least those that are not affiliated with any other labor union ) are independent organizations that completely provide for all their own services, such as staff, attorneys, consultants and organizers. Also, the AAUP does not have the power of receivership in its constitution and so it can not take over any of its affiliates, supplant any of its elected leaders, or dictate policy or bargaining proposals or agenda upon them. Several university chapters have been involved in labor strikes , including at Boston University in 1979, Wright State University and Oregon Tech in 2021, and Rutgers University in 2023. The AAUP censures institutions that violated standards of academic freedom and tenure and sanctions institutions that have infringed university governance standards through "serious departures by
1577-617: Is the flagship university of the Utah System of Higher Education . As of fall 2023, there were 26,827 undergraduate students and 8,409 graduate students, for an enrollment total of 35,236, making it the second-largest public university in Utah. Graduate studies include the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the School of Medicine , Utah's first medical school . It is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and
1660-427: Is the university's newest college, with its first graduating class in 2018. The University operates on a semester calendar with the rest of the Utah higher education system. Undergraduate tuition and fees for 2015–2016 were $ 8,240 for Utah residents (about 325% the cost of tuition and fees in 2000, $ 2,534 for 13 credit hours per semester, 2 semesters), and $ 26,180 for non-residents per 12-credit-hour semester. For
1743-571: The American Council on Education (ACE), and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB). The statement clarifies the respective roles of governing boards, faculties, and administrations. The document does not provide for a "blueprint" to the governance of higher education . Also, the purpose of the statement was not to provide principles for relations with industry and government although it establishes direction on "the correction of existing weaknesses." Rather,
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#17327731604971826-614: The Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors , including the document now known as the 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure —the AAUP's foundational statement on the rights and corresponding obligations of members of the academic profession. Since 2010 the AAUP has published the Journal of Academic Freedom , an online-only open-access annual journal. In June 2022,
1909-658: The Huntsman Cancer Institute , the Moran Eye Center , and the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. South of the health sciences complex, several university residence halls and apartments are clustered together near Fort Douglas and the Heritage Center, which serves as a student center and cafeteria for this area. In addition, there are 1,115 university apartments for students, staff, and faculty across three apartment complexes on campus. At
1992-598: The Moran Eye Center . The university's athletic teams, the Utes , participate in NCAA Division I athletics ( FBS for football) as a member of the Big 12 Conference . Twenty-two Rhodes Scholars , four Nobel Prize winners , three Turing Award winners, eight MacArthur Fellows , various Pulitzer Prize winners, two astronauts, Gates Cambridge Scholars , and Churchill Scholars have been affiliated with
2075-663: The New York Institute of Technology . Present graphics research is focused on biomedical applications for visualization , scientific computing , and image analysis at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute . In March 2012, the university received unanimous approval from the board of trustees to create a new academic college, the School of Dentistry, which is the university's first new college in sixty years. The new school has received funding for
2158-683: The Utah Board of Higher Education (previously the Utah State Board of Regents) whose chief executive officer is the Commissioner of Higher Education. The chief executive officer of the University of Utah is the president, who reports to the Board of Higher Education and, with the approval of the trustees, submits budgets, tuition adjustments, and academic program plans, appoints faculty, and develops policy initiatives. Subject to
2241-532: The Utes , though some teams have an additional nickname, such as "Runnin' Utes" for the men's basketball team. The university participates in the NCAA 's Division I ( FBS for football) as part of the Big 12 Conference . There is a fierce BYU–Utah rivalry , and the Utah–BYU football game , traditionally the season finale, has been called the "Holy War" by national broadcasting commentators. The university fight song
2324-545: The state of Utah and the University of Utah (as a state entity), recognize the historical events of 1915 as the Armenian genocide". The university has 9 men's and 11 women's varsity teams. Athletic teams include men's baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, skiing, swimming/diving, and tennis and women's basketball, cross country, gymnastics, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming/diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. The school's sports teams are called
2407-444: The "1925 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure," which started to become institutionalized in universities only in the 1940s. The AAUP offers the original principles, including the 1940 interpretations of the statement and a 1970 interpretation, which codified evaluation of the principles since the time they were adopted. The statement is straightforward, based on three principles of academic freedom. Briefly summarized,
2490-657: The 1940 statement and a later documents on standards for faculty dismissal. In Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1957), the Supreme Court of the United States acknowledged the essential role of academic freedom as a protected right under the First Amendment . This case set a precedent that significantly influenced university policies across the United States, affirming the importance of academic discourse and inquiry without governmental interference. However, "at
2573-605: The 1944 and 1947 teams. He also went on to help the Minneapolis Lakers win NBA Championships in 1949 and 1951. Wat Misaka , the first person of Asian descent to play in the NBA, also played for Utah during this era. Utah basketball rose again to national prominence when head coach Rick Majerus took his team, including guard Andre Miller , combo forward Hanno Möttölä , and post player Michael Doleac , to
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2656-617: The 9th member, and the President of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) serves as the 10th member. The 8 appointed members serve for four-year terms, four expiring on June 30 of each odd-numbered year. The two ex officio members serve for the terms of their respective offices. The University of Utah and the other public colleges and universities of the Utah System of Higher Education are governed by
2739-515: The AAUP affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers . In 2024, AAUP president Todd Wolfson referred to United States Senator JD Vance as a “ fascist .” The remark was in relation to Vance’s conduct during that year's presidential election , during which Vance was the vice presidential nominee. As the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) details the history of their policy on academic freedom and tenure ,
2822-455: The AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in the country's colleges and universities . In the 1890s and early 1900s, there were a number of attempts to dismiss college faculty members from their academic posts, including a failed attempt to dismiss Richard Ely at the University of Wisconsin in 1894. The following year Edward Bemis
2905-434: The AAUP offered up another interpretation, stating that the "1970 de-endorsement clause" requires a religious institution to forfeit its "right to represent itself as an 'authentic seat of higher learning.'" But the AAUP's Committee A did not endorse it, thus the issue on whether a religious institution can place limits on academic freedom if those limitations are clearly stated appears to be unresolved. The AAUP has released
2988-410: The AAUP's stance regarding academic freedom in religious institutions as contradicting its 1940 statement on academic freedom, which permits religious institutions to place limits on academic freedom if those limitations are clearly stated. In 1970, the AAUP criticized its 1940 statement, positing that most religious institutions "no longer need or desire" to place limits on academic freedom. In 1988,
3071-783: The Board of Trustees, the university faculty have authority to legislate on matters of educational policy via the Academic Senate . The Senate is composed of 100 faculty members proportionally representing and elected by their respective colleges, 2 elected deans , and 18 students from the ASUU, one from each college and the ASUU president. The Senate also includes the University President , Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs , Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, and all non-elected deans as ex officio members who may debate and present motions but do not vote. Much of
3154-496: The Class of 2023 (enrolling Fall 2019), Utah received 24,404 applications and accepted 15,159 (62%), with 4,249 enrolling. The middle 50% range of SAT scores for enrolling freshmen was 572.5-680 for evidence-based reading and writing, 570-700 for math, and 1150-1370 for the composite. The middle 50% ACT score range was 22-28 for math, 21-31 for English, and 22-29 for the composite. The average high school grade point average ( GPA )
3237-478: The NCAA Final Four in 1998 . After eliminating North Carolina to advance to the final round, Utah lost the championship game to Kentucky , 78–69. In 2004–2005, the football team, coached by Urban Meyer and quarterbacked by Alex Smith , along with defensive great Eric Weddle , went 11–0 during the regular season and defeated Pittsburgh 35–7 in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl , becoming the first team from
3320-467: The School of Music and for musical performances, and the Marriott Center for Dance. Red Butte Garden , with formal gardens and natural areas, as well as the new site of the Utah Museum of Natural History , is located on the far east side of campus. The health sciences complex, at the northeast end of campus, includes the University of Utah Medical Center , Primary Children's Medical Center ,
3403-624: The United States in such institutions as University of Connecticut , Portland State University , University of Alaska , the California State University system , Rutgers , University of Oregon , Eastern Michigan University , University of Illinois Chicago , University of Rhode Island , State University of New York , and many others in both the public and private sector. Unlike the American Federation of Teachers and other more traditional labor unions, AAUP
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3486-626: The University of Utah." The University of Utah provides student housing in a 34-building housing complex on campus. The complex consists of nine housing areas: Chapel Glen, Gateway Heights, Sage Point, Officer's Circle, Benchmark Plaza, Shoreline Ridge, the Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community (MHC for short), the Lassonde Studios, and Kahlert Village. The MHC is a dormitory strictly for honors students and
3569-538: The University's jurisdiction. It also provides recommendations for the University to work with external entities such as UDOT, UTA, and Salt Lake City to improve bicycling conditions in locations that are important to the campus environment, but which are not under the University's direct control. Sustainability efforts include a permanent sustainability office, a campus cogeneration plant, building upgrades and energy efficient building standards, behavior modification programs, purchasing local produce for campus dining,
3652-677: The actual Senate work is carried out by 12 Senate-elected committees which work on the central academic issues of the institution. The committees report to the full Senate and the Senate often acts on their proposals as well as on issues brought to its attention by the administration. The University of Utah is accredited through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities since 1933. The university organizes its 150 academic departments and programs into 17 colleges and schools. The School for Cultural and Social Transformation
3735-523: The administration and/or governing board from generally accepted standards of college and university government". In 1930, the University of Mississippi , Mississippi State University and Mississippi University for Women , were placed on a list of "non-recommended" institutions, after Mississippi Governor Theodore Bilbo and member of the Ku Klux Klan fired the presidents of all three institutions as well as 179 faculty members. The censure list
3818-437: The association maintains that there "are still people who want to control what professors teach and write." The AAUP's "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" is the definitive articulation of the principles and practices and is widely accepted throughout the academic community. The association's procedures ensuring academic due process remain the model for professional employment practices on campuses throughout
3901-541: The council house into the Union Academy building in 1876 and into Union Square in 1884. In 1892, the school's name was changed to the University of Utah, and John R. Park began arranging to obtain land belonging to the U.S. Army's Fort Douglas on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley , where the university moved permanently in 1900. Additional Fort Douglas land has been granted to the university over
3984-403: The country. The association suggests that "The principles of Academic Freedom and Tenure" date back to a 1925 conference. R. M. O'Neil's history suggests that the formal origins of the statement of academic freedom in the United States begins with an earlier 1915 "declaration of principles," when the "fledgling" AAUP first convened. While it seems common sense that academic freedom aligns with
4067-640: The country. The Department was founded by William F. Christensen in 1951, who also founded the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West companies . The university has made unique contributions to the study of genetics due in part to long-term genealogy efforts of the LDS Church , which has allowed researchers to trace genetic disorders through several generations. The relative homogeneity of Utah's population also makes it an ideal laboratory for studies of population genetics. The university
4150-484: The faculty have." Detailing terms for appeal of the decision to deny tenure, the fourth point notes that both faculty and the institution's governing board should judge whether tenure is to be granted or denied. The final point suggests that if the faculty member is not granted tenure appointment for reasons of financial restraint upon the university, the "financial exigency should be demonstrably bona fide." The interpretive statement also maintains that while professors have
4233-592: The faculty resigned in protest of these dismissals. Some felt that the dismissals were a result of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ' influence on the university, while others felt that they reflected a more general pattern of repressing religious and political expression that might be deemed offensive. The controversy was largely resolved when Kingsbury resigned in 1916, but university operations were again interrupted by World War I, and later The Great Depression and World War II. Student enrollment dropped to
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#17327731604974316-626: The first method for representing surface textures in graphical images, the Gouraud shading model, magnetic ink printing technology, the Johnson counter logic circuit , the oldest algebraic mathematics package still in use ( REDUCE ), the Phong reflection model , the Phong shading method, and the rendering equation . Through the movement of Utah graduates and faculty, research at the University spread outward to laboratories like Xerox Parc , JPL , and
4399-523: The first principle states that teachers are entitled to "full freedom in research and in publication of the results" and that the issue of financial gains from research depends on the relationship with the institution. The second principle of academic freedom is that teachers should have the same freedom in the classroom. The third asserts that college and university professors are citizens and should be free to speak and write as citizens "free from institutional censorship." The 1970 interpretation believes that
4482-400: The importance of faculty involvement in personnel decisions, selection of administrators, preparation of the budget, and determination of educational policies. Refinements to the statement were introduced in subsequent years, culminating in the 1966 "Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities." The statement was jointly formulated by the American Association of University Professors,
4565-696: The job protections that should be afforded to part-time faculty members. In 2003, it had released its major policy statement Contingent Appointments and the Academic Profession. The statement makes new recommendations in two areas: increasing the proportion of faculty appointments that are on the tenure line as well as improving job security and due process protections for those with contingent appointments. In 2009, AAUP began its reorganization amongst its thinktank, its non-organized advocacy chapters and its support for collective bargaining chapters. AAUP currently represents approximately 70 affiliates across
4648-452: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AAUP&oldid=1136726012 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages American Association of University Professors The American Association of University Professors ( AAUP )
4731-517: The nation for NIH research grants as of 2023, and its PharmD program is ranked 14th in the nation. The department of Pharmacology and Toxicology within the School of Pharmacy is world-renowned for research in epilepsy treatment with their Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) program. The university is host to the Neal A. Maxwell Lecture Series in Political Theory and Contemporary Politics,
4814-518: The objections of the president and the faculty, to succeed in getting Ross eventually dismissed. A number of faculty colleagues resigned in protest, including Arthur O. Lovejoy . Fifteen years later, In January 1915, the AAUP formed as the "Association of University Professors" after a series of meetings held at the Chemists' Club in New York City. John Dewey would serve as President of
4897-588: The only accredited allopathic medical school in the State of Utah. The medical school has made several notable contributions to medicine, such as establishing the first Cerebrovascular Disease Unit west of the Mississippi River in 1970 and administering the world's first permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7 , to Barney Clark in 1982. The University of Utah College of Pharmacy is ranked 15th in
4980-657: The organization, with Lovejoy, who had by then moved on to Johns Hopkins , serving as Secretary. In February 1915, the dismissals of two professors and two instructors at the University of Utah by President Joseph T. Kingsbury —and the subsequent resignations of 14 faculty members in protest—launched the AAUP's first institutional academic freedom inquest. An earlier 1911 controversy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, had involved some of these same professors. The AAUP published, in December 1915, its inaugural volume of
5063-525: The program has continued to grow and refine its procedures to better accommodate a growing campus' needs. Currently there are programs in place for paper, cardboard, aluminum, batteries, glass, printer cartridges, wooden pallets and plastics #1 and #2. The university is ranked 8th by the EPA for annual green power usage among universities, with 49% of its power coming from geothermal and solar sources. The university houses 10 solar array systems, including
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#17327731604975146-439: The program with "promoting the falsification of history through its grants and political advocacy... the University of Utah has provided an institutional home to genocide denial." In 2020, regarding "a student complaint and messages of concern from the Armenian community about the content of an article written by and assigned in a class taught by Hakan Yavuz ," the university made a statement, according to which: "The United States,
5229-535: The purchase of 20 megawatts of geothermal energy for 25 years. The contract offsets half of the electricity produced by the university and reduces the university's carbon emissions by 23%. The University of Utah is governed by a 10-member Board of Trustees , 8 of whom are appointed by the Governor of Utah with the consent of the Utah Senate . The President of the University of Utah Alumni Association serves as
5312-478: The rights of citizens, both scholars and educational officers "should remember that the public may judge their profession and their institution by their utterances," noting that every effort should be made "to indicate they are not speaking for the institution." The comments provide for further insights into the evaluation for tenure appointment and direct to the "1968 Recommended Institutional Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure," which recommends policy based upon
5395-521: The soaring spirit of our state and school" In 2002, the university was one of 20 schools to make the U.S. News & World Report College Sports Honor Roll. In 2005, Utah became the first school to produce No. 1 overall draft picks in both the NFL draft and NBA draft for the same year. Alex Smith was picked first overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2005 NFL draft , and Andrew Bogut
5478-625: The southeast end of campus is Research Park , which is home to research companies including ARUP Laboratories , Evans & Sutherland , Sarcos , Biofire Diagnostics, and Myriad Genetics . Courses are also held at off-campus centers located in St. George and Sandy . In July 2017, the Academic Senate bestowed the designation of tobacco-free campus on the university, but rules were not enforced until 2018. The rule prohibits students and faculty from "smoking or using chewing tobacco, electronic cigarettes and all other recreational nicotine-delivery products on any property owned, leased or controlled by
5561-505: The statement aimed to establish a shared vision for the internal governance of institutions. Student involvement is not addressed in detail. The statement concerns general education policy and internal operations with an overview of the formal roles for governing structures in the organization and management of higher education. The AAUP has censured numerous religious institutions, including The Catholic University of America in 1990 and Brigham Young University in 1998. Some have criticized
5644-465: The statement is not a "static code but a fundamental document to set a framework of norms to guide adaptations to changing times and circumstances." The commentary iterates key points of the 1940 interpretations. The statement does not discourage controversy but emphasizes professionalism, believing that professors should be careful "not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject." Based upon five principles,
5727-402: The statement on academic tenure is equally simple and to the point. The first principle maintains that the terms of appointment are to be stated in writing. The second details the conditions and length of time professors are given to attain tenure. The third notes that during the probationary period before attaining tenure, the teacher "should have all the academic freedom that all other members of
5810-566: The time of the Sweezy decision, the AAUP was deeply ambivalent about the constitutionalization of academic freedom, because some members feared the long-term consequences of having judges rather than professors elaborate and apply the protective rules of academic life." In Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967), the constitutionality and legal basis for AAUP's principles of academic freedom were established. The American Association of University Professors published its first "Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities" in 1920, "emphasizing
5893-401: The university area as well as the TRAX Red Line ( light rail ), which runs to South Jordan . Riders can travel downtown, to FrontRunner ( commuter rail ), to West Valley , to the Salt Lake City International Airport , or to Draper by transferring to the TRAX Green or Blue lines. Students and staff can use their university IDs to ride UTA buses, TRAX, and FrontRunner . In 2012,
5976-508: The university as students, researchers, or faculty members in its history. Soon after the Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake valley in 1847, Brigham Young began organizing a Board of Regents to establish a university. The university was established on February 28, 1850, as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret , and Orson Spencer
6059-618: The university had established itself as a "denialist beachhead" prior to the creation of the Turkish Studies Program. The University of Utah Press has published several books denying the Armenian genocide , beginning with Guenter Lewy 's The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey . The book's publication by the University of Utah Press was arranged by Yavuz himself. Professor Keith David Watenpaugh charges
6142-447: The university unveiled a new plan for a more conducive campus for bicyclists called the "Bicycle Master Plan" which aims to transform the campus into a safer and more accessible place for cycling and to promote bicycle ridership. The plan emphasizes both campus pathways and on-street facilities that connect the core campus area with surrounding neighborhoods. The Bicycle Master Plan gives guidelines for facilities and programs that are within
6225-606: The university was named a member of the Association of American Universities . The campus covers 1,534 acres (6.21 km ), including the Health Sciences complex, Research Park , and Fort Douglas . It is located on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley , close to the Wasatch Range and approximately 2 miles east of downtown Salt Lake City . Most courses take place on the west side of campus, known as lower campus due to its lower elevation. Presidents Circle
6308-463: The values of democratic rights and free speech, O'Neil also notes the ideas of academic freedom at the time were not entirely well received, and even the New York Times criticized the declaration, but that today the statement remains "almost as nearly inviolate as the U.S. Constitution." The AAUP notes that following a series of conferences beginning in 1934, the association officially adopted
6391-450: The years, and the fort was officially closed on October 26, 1991. Upon his death in 1900, Dr. John R. Park bequeathed his entire fortune to the university. The university grew rapidly in the early 20th century but was involved in an academic freedom controversy in 1915 when Joseph T. Kingsbury recommended that five faculty members be dismissed after a graduation speaker made a speech critical of Utah governor William Spry . One third of
6474-444: Was 3.66. The university uses a holistic admissions process and weighs ACT/SAT standardized test scores, GPA, grade trend, rigorous AP/IB/Honors classes taken in high school, academic achievements, along with other "personal achievements and characteristics". The Department of Ballet offers the top ranked ballet and ballroom dance program in the United States and is one of the oldest and most reputable university ballet departments in
6557-544: Was appointed as the first chancellor of the university. Early classes were held in private homes, or wherever space could be found. The university closed in 1853 due to a lack of funds and lack of feeder schools . Following years of intermittent classes in the Salt Lake City Council House , the university began to be re-established in 1867 under the direction of David O. Calder , who was followed by John R. Park in 1869. The university moved out of
6640-568: Was completed in fall 2012. Built in 2016, the Lassonde Studios is part of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and houses 400 students; the studios also feature a "creative garage" with 3D printers and spaces for startups. Kahlert Village, completed August 2020, houses 990 first-year students. A number of campus shuttles, running on biodiesel and used vegetable oil, circle the campus on six different routes. The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) runs several buses through
6723-569: Was dismissed from a post at the University of Chicago and George D. Herron from one at Grinnell College in 1899. Perhaps most prominent of these incidents was the 1900 dismissal of eugenicist , economics professor, and sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross from Stanford University . Ross's work criticizing the employment of Chinese laborers by the Southern Pacific Railroad , run by Stanford's founder Leland Stanford , led Leland's widow, Jane Stanford , to intervene and, over
6806-461: Was officially created in 1938. Between that year and 2002, 183 colleges and universities were placed on the list at various times. As of 2024, there are 59 institutions on AAUP's censure list. Fourteen colleges in the United States are currently on AAUP's list of sanctioned institutions for violations of shared governance. Apart from the elected leadership, the AAUP has been led in its day to day operations by what has been at various times called
6889-519: Was picked first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA draft . The university has won fifteen NCAA Skiing Championships , most recently in 2023, as well as the 1977 AIAW National Women's Skiing Championship. The men's basketball team won the NCAA title in 1944 and the NIT crown in 1947. Arnie Ferrin , the only four-time All-American in Utah basketball history, played for both
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