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Warner Lawson, Jr.
Charman
About the Chairman
Warner Lawson, Jr. currently serves as a Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law, where he has held this position since 1974. He served as the Associate Dean of Howard University's School of Law from 1979 - 1985 and Acting Dean during the same period. Prior to his tenure at the Law School, he was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University College of Law from 1971-1974. Earlier in his career, he held the position of an Associate Attorney for the Law Firm of Proskaur, Rose, Goetz and Mendelson of New York. Professor Lawson was elected Chairman of the Faculty Grievance Commission in 2006.
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From The Chairman:
The Faculty Grievance Commission has an Overall Mission:
To protect and uphold the rights and academic freedom of our colleagues, and insure that due process is followed.
Welcome to the web pages of the Howard University's Faculty Grievance Commission. The Faculty Grievance Commission is an independent, conflict resolution mechanism body, whose function is to hear and decide grievances that are brought before the commission by any member of the University's faculty who believes there is a legitimate need for intervention and/or mediation by a neutral body to decide an academic freedom infringement or a negation of due process. The Commission is tasked with conducting thorough investigations, hold hearings, and issuing a summary statement of its findings to all parties involved. The Commission is assisted by an independent legal counsel who is quite familiar with labor relations and those that relate to faculty, such as promotion, tenure and other matters that may affect varying degrees of one's career status. We, the Commissioners, invite you to consult the pages of Section 2.8 of the Faculty Handbook (PDF Page 22) to gain personal insight on what constitutes a grievance, and the interpretation of the governing statutes. Again, protecting the rights and academic freedom of our colleagues is paramount to the very existence of this mediating body, and the continued success of all academic endeavors of Howard University.
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