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Faculty members informed this committee of having been left in the dark as to what was happening after the tenure and promotion committee had deliberated and made its recommendations to appoint Professor Hannah-Jones with tenure. The task of this committee was not to evaluate the merits of her work or critiques of it, but to ask what went wrong after the positive tenure recommendations of the school of journalism's review committee, the school's faculty, the university review committee, and the campus administration. When his nomination was submitted to the UNC board of governors' university governance committee along with two others, however, the committee chair asked Chancellor Guskiewicz to submit a name other than Professor Muller's, which the chancellor declined to do. The AAUP statement Faculty Participation in the Selection, Evaluation, and Retention of Administrators further stipulates that "the board, with which the legal power of appointment rests, should either select a name from among those submitted by the faculty committee or should agree that no person will be chosen over the objections of the faculty committee." To date, the board has not communicated to anyone, including the faculty committee, any reasons, let alone "compelling" ones, for its initial failure to take action on that committee's favorable recommendation on Professor Hannah-Jones's tenure candidacy. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a report concerning the action taken on February 25, 2016, by the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri to dismiss Melissa A. Click, an assistant professor of communication, from the faculty of the University of Missouri. She was charged with misconduct without having afforded her the faculty hearing called for under both the university's regulations and the recommended standards of the American Association of University Professors.

A Flawed Search The search for Ray Cross's successor officially began on November 1, 2019, when board president Drew Petersen named a search committee. The new search was attended by board drama even before it started, as Michael Grebe, who had led the abortive Johnsen search, sought election as board president for the 2021-22 year. Equally encouraging is who is not serving on the new search committee: Grebe and Petersen, who, as previous search committee chair and former board president, respectively, so aggressively bungled the Johnsen search. [Extracted from the article]