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The United Faculty of Florida

defends the Due Process rights, and Academic Freedom & Tenure rights of

USF Professor Sami Al-Arian

On the Termination of a Controversial Professor

Sami Al-Arian is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of South Florida, at Tampa, Florida. He arrived at USF in 1986, one year after receiving his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He has been at USF ever since.

On December 19, 2001, President Judy Genshaft announced Professor Al-Arian's imminent termination. Since this termination involved Professor Al-Arian's due process and academic freedom and tenure rights, the UFF quickly became involved. The UFF defends the contract by which professors at USF are hired, and any violation of the contract threatens the entire faculty at USF.

Eternal vigilance
is the price
of liberty
-- Wendell Phillips

These pages serve two purposes.

  • Here we post documents generated by the UFF or its friends, to be available to all visitors.
  • Here we post a number of links so that visitors wishing to examine the controversy and form their own conclusions have access to (or at least references to) many of the primary issues involved.

The primary concerns of the United Faculty of Florida in this case are due process and academic freedom. The UFF is convinced that the unjust treatment of any university professional is a threat to all. Therefore, while the UFF membership has varying views of Professsor Al-Arian, we must, for our own safety's sake, defend his freedom of speech and his right to due process.

And this is larger than just academia. This Nation fought a Revolutionary Warfor, among other things, freedom of speech and the right to due process.

Out of a sense of satire (read on), we should make the following disclaimer: the facts, opinions, and organization of facts and opinions appearing on these pages are the responsibility of UFF, USF/UFF, and the webmaster, and in no way represent the knowledge or views of the USF Administration.

We will maintain several pages of links and references, creating more as events unfold. Most of them are in the form of chronologies, with links and/or citations.