By Kevin Xavier and Natasha Tripathi
Yesterday afternoon, the Executive Committee of New Jersey’s American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) passed a resolution urging Rutgers to further pursue an investigation into football head coach Kyle Flood following allegations recently made against him.
The allegations state that Flood reportedly emailed a part-time lecturer about the grade of “F” the instructor assigned to football player Nadir Barnwell when Barnwell was said to be in jeopardy of being declared academically ineligible to play.
David Hughes, Rutgers’ AAUP-AFT’s faculty union president and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, said the faculty is not trying to undermine Flood’s job security, but instead pointing out the flaws in Rutgers’ overall system that opens the door for higher-earning employees to wield power over other employees in potentially weak positions.
[…]Teresa Politano has been teaching at Rutgers for 16 years and currently serves as the President of the Part-Time Lecturers Faculty Chapter (PTLFC) of the AAUF-AFT while continuing to teach in the University’s School of Communication and Information. Politano shared her “outside opinion” on the passing of the resolution in a phone interview last night, making it clear she did not participate in the resolution’s drafting, nor does she have any further knowledge of the investigation of Flood beyond what has been made public.
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