Layoffs at Southern University violated AAUP standards, report says - Quincy Hodges, The Times-Picayune

Southern University administrators used a declaration of financial exigency to terminate the appointments of tenured professors and bypassed faculty participation in decisions regarding restructuring, according to a report by the American Association of University Professors. AAUP authorized its investigation after receiving complaints from faculty in Baton Rouge. SU faculty claims the administration terminated tenured professors with no provision for the hearing before a faculty committee and with as little as a 30-day notice. According to the report, the terminations followed a 10 percent furlough mandated for all faculty members immediately after the Board of Supervisors declared financial exigency in October 2011. http://www.nola.com/education/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2013/04/layoffs_at_southern_university.html