An article in Insider Higher Ed today describes an AAUP report about Nunez Community College’s apparent retribution against a faculty member (he was fired) who asked that his name be removed from a report to SACS that may have contained “reconstructed” data.
I hope to have more on this soon, but off the top of my head this raises some interesting questions:
- Will SACS investigate the use of what may be fake data?
- Will the Nunez respond that virtually all assessment data is similarly fake or at least equally meaningless?
- Academic freedom is part of the accreditation process. Will SACS revisit its accreditation of Nunez in light of its apparent contempt for academic freedom? Or will it conclude that enforcing faculty compliance with assessment is more of a priority than academic freedom?