• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Rutgers AAUP-AFT

Rutgers AAUP-AFT

Rutgers AAUP-AFT: 50th Anniversary

  • Contract Campaign
    • What We R Fighting For
    • 2023 Strike FAQ
    • Strike FAQ for Students
    • Bargaining Status at a Glance
    • Contract Resource Center
    • Opening Bargaining Proposals
    • Bargaining Updates
    • From the Table Updates
  • Who We Are
    • Our History
      • Our Union’s Timeline
      • The Living History of Our Union
      • Our Logo: The Story of the Pencil-Fist
    • Full-Time Faculty
      • Know Your Contract
    • Part-Time Lecturers
    • Grad Workers
      • Know Your Contract
    • Postdoctoral Associates
    • EOF Counselors
    • Winter-Summer Instructors
    • Retiree Assembly
    • Rutgers One
  • Know Your Union
    • Rutgers AAUP-AFT Officers
    • Executive Council
    • TA/GA Steering Committee
    • Chapter Leaders
    • Negotiating Committee
    • PTLFC Executive Board
    • Working Groups
      • Rutgers Grads United
      • International Students Working Group
    • Union Staff
  • Resources
    • Know Your Contract
    • Text of the Current Contract
    • Health and Safety FAQ
    • Salary Equity Program
    • Postdoc Merger Campaign FAQ
    • Reproductive Justice FAQ
    • Remote Instruction FAQ
    • OPRA Document Center
    • Promotion-Tenure Webinar Slides (2021)
    • Union Bylaws
    • Dues Charts
    • Student Scholarships
    • Student Paid Internships
  • News
    • Bargaining Updates
    • Member News
    • Media Statements
    • Statements and Resolutions
    • RU Listening Podcast
    • By Our Members
    • Member Spotlight
  • Get Involved
    • Sign Up to Get Involved
    • Calendar
    • Freedom School
    • Committee on Political Education
    • Working Groups
      • Rutgers Grads United
      • International Students Working Group
  • Join Us!
    • Join Our Union
    • Become a Fellows Member
    • Why Join?
    • Dues Charts

We Support Our Colleague Audrey Truschke

March 15, 2021

In recent weeks our colleague, Dr. Audrey Truschke, has come under attack for her public scholarship. We join the campus leaders of Rutgers-Newark in expressing our strong support for Dr. Truschke. 

Dr. Truschke is a tenured associate professor in the Department of History at Rutgers-Newark who has published three critically acclaimed books and dozens of academic and popular press articles in her area of expertise. The academic enterprise can become fraught when serious scholars pursue lines of inquiry that touch controversial or sensitive topics, and Dr. Truschke’s work over the years has clearly challenged sincerely held beliefs. However, over the last few weeks, criticism of her has crossed over into vulgar slander and implied violence and now includes an “open letter” calling on the administration of Rutgers University to take disciplinary action against her for her scholarship.

Academic freedom is fundamental to the academic enterprise and high-level scholarship, and we appreciate that Dr. Truschke always has and always will offer substantive responses to commentaries on her work. We are heartened that Rutgers administration continues to affirm the importance of academic freedom for all our faculty. Personal attacks and threats of violence against scholars must never be tolerated, and Rutgers AAUP-AFT will always defend members who demonstrate the high degree of academic integrity and scholarship that Dr. Truschke has shown throughout her career.

Rutgers AAUP-AFT stands in solidarity with Professor Audrey Truschke and against the attacks on her privacy and academic freedom. 

Related

Category: Statements and Resolutions
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Mail

Copyright © 2023 · Rutgers AAUP-AFT · 11 Stone Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1113 · (732) 964-1000 · aaup@rutgersaaup.org · Login · Return to top