Dear Professor Wilson, Provost Wilkin, and Chancellor Boyce,
On behalf of the Organization of American Historians, we write to protest the recent decision at the University of Mississippi to not renew Garrett Felber’s contract as a tenure-track professor in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History. The effective termination of Professor Felber’s employment is an attack on thestandards of academic freedom espoused by the OAH <https://www.oah.org/about/governance/policies/academic-freedom-guidelines-and-best-practices/>. We are deeply concerned about the chilling effect of this decision—which will likely extend far beyond this specific instance—on academic freedom. We also strongly assert that the principles of academic freedom in research and publication, teaching and learning, and in public expression apply equally to tenured, tenure track, and contingent faculty, as well as to graduate student instructors and research assistants.
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