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Chancellor Doug Girod University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045
Dear Dr. Girod:
Standing in solidarity with the faculty and staff of the University of Kansas, the American Society for Theatre Research urges you to join the leaders of other Kansas Regents universities and decline to exercise the new regents policy that would suspend the procedures of shared governance, including tenure protection, in order to ease dismissals, suspensions, and terminations. Sufficient procedures already exist without adopting this dangerous policy to declare financial exigency and take necessary actions while keeping faculty participation and due process in place.
On behalf of ASTR, a U.S.-based professional organization that fosters scholarship on worldwide theatre and performance and a member of the American Council of Learned Societies, I urge the University of Kansas to respect the long-established standards of the academic profession.
Respectfully,
Marla Carlson President, American Society for Theatre Research Caroline Reid Ridlehuber Professor of Theatre Arts Graduate Coordinator, Theatre and Film Studies Department University of Georgia
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