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AAUP censured Illinois at last year’s annual meeting for the university’s 2014 revocation of a tenured job offer to Salaita in the American Indian studies program over the tone of his anti-Israel tweets. The association’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure recommended conditionally removing the university from its censure list this year, pending a planned site visit to assess the climate for academic freedom there. To get off the censure list, an institution must somehow redress the situation with the aggrieved faculty member or members -- which AAUP says Illinois did in settling with Salaita last year -- as well as reform policies to prevent a similar situation from happening again and participate in a final site visit to assess climate.
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