The American Association of University Professors Foundation will give $5,000 to Steven G. Salaita, who was offered a professorship by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but then saw it revoked after he wrote tweets critical of Israel. The money comes from the foundation’s Academic Freedom Fund, which provides “temporary financial aid” to “faculty members whose means of support are reduced or cut off because of their involvement in academic-freedom controversies.”
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