Brown-Mangum hopes the coalition won't sabotage UDC's efforts to rebuild.
"We're concerned that they are trying to get the university black-balled," she said. "That is not the way to get people's jobs back. The way to do that is to increase enrollment."
According to AAUP officials, however, their goal is not to smear the university, but to defend faculty rights.
"In our experience, we know of no action of similar magnitude anywhere in the country against faculty members," says Jonathan Knight, AAUP associate secretary. "We deal with over 1,000 complaints and cases a year, and only about six to ten are authorized for a full scale investigation. UDC is now one of those."
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