{"id":2337,"date":"2025-02-06T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:57:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:57:51","slug":"il-aaup-letter-to-the-northwestern-administration-january-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/2025\/02\/06\/il-aaup-letter-to-the-northwestern-administration-january-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Northwestern Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kadence-column2337_93282b-87 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column2337_93282b-87 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column2337_93282b-87 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column2337_93282b-87 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column2337_93282b-87{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column2337_93282b-87 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column2337_93282b-87 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column2337_93282b-87\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\"><style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h4 class=\"kt-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading2337_3a236b-b0\">January 2, 2025<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.kadence-column2337_880cc3-d3 > .kt-inside-inner-col{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-sm, 1rem);}.kadence-column2337_880cc3-d3 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;}.kadence-column2337_880cc3-d3 > .kt-inside-inner-col > .aligncenter{width:100%;}.kadence-column2337_880cc3-d3 > .kt-inside-inner-col:before{opacity:0.3;}.kadence-column2337_880cc3-d3{position:relative;}@media all and (max-width: 1024px){.kadence-column2337_880cc3-d3 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kadence-column2337_880cc3-d3 > .kt-inside-inner-col{flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column kadence-column2337_880cc3-d3\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steven Thrasher, Assistant Professor and Daniel H. Renberg Chair, <br>Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b3fbf908-32f8-48c6-a4b0-52d22b64ab97\" href=\"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IL-AAUP-Letter-to-NWU-1-2-25.docx\">IL AAUP Letter to the Northwestern Administration, January 2, 2025<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IL-AAUP-Letter-to-NWU-1-2-25.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b3fbf908-32f8-48c6-a4b0-52d22b64ab97\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-142dfe0d-9e20-47a6-97b2-5e01a9605526\" href=\"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Press-Release-Steven-Exonerated-charged-anew-1.pdf\">Press Release: Ad Hoc Committee Exonerates Steven Thrasher, January 23, 2025<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Press-Release-Steven-Exonerated-charged-anew-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-142dfe0d-9e20-47a6-97b2-5e01a9605526\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Steven Thrasher will resume teaching at the Medill School of Journalism on April 1 after an ad-hoc committee of three professors convened from across the faculty at Northwestern University found no cause for his suspension last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom-and-tenure","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilaaup.org\/staging_2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}