AAUP Restructuring Information and Materials

The AAUP is planning a reorganization in order to create three interlocked entities under one AAUP umbrella. This change will better align our legal status with our evolving activities, our evolving membership, and our ambitious aims for future programs and services. As part of this reorganization, constitutions have been drafted for each entity.

In order to allow members ample time to review them before the June 2008 annual meeting, the draft constitutions are being disseminated in several ways. They were published in the March-April issue of Academe, and are available, below. On December 13, 2007, AAUP president Cary Nelson sent this e-mail message to members alerting them to the constitutions and explaining the constitution-adoption process.

The constitutions have been extensively reviewed and approved by the Restructuring Task Force, the Committee on Organization of the Association, the executive committees of the AAUP’s Assembly of State Conferences and Collective Bargaining Congress, the  Executive Committee of the AAUP Council and the Council as a whole, AAUP staff, and outside counsel.

At the annual meeting in June, AAUP members will vote on whether to adopt the constitution of the AAUP. Delegates to the June meeting of the Collective Bargaining Congress will vote separately on the new AAUP-CBC constitution. The decision to create the AAUP Foundation rests with the elected national Council, the body with financial oversight responsibility for the Association.

Any comments or questions may be sent to Laura Kumin at lkumin@aaup.org.

For the Record: Restructuring. Statement by Restructuring Task Force Chair Robert A. Gorman.  (Published in March-April 2008 Academe)

• AAUP Constitution: Draft and Summary of Changes (.pdf)

• Constitution of the AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress: Draft and  Summary of Changes Compared to CBC Bylaws (.pdf)
• Draft Constitution of the AAUP Foundation (.pdf)

Background and Explanatory Materials

• From the President: The Restructuring Process. (Published in March-April 2008 Academe)
• From the President: Restructuring and the ASC. (Published in January-February 2008 Academe)
• From the President: Restructuring and the CBC.  (Published in November-December 2007 Academe)
• E-mail message from AAUP president Cary Nelson to members. (December 13, 2007)
• AAUP Plans Reorganization. Statement by Restructuring Task Force Chair Robert A. Gorman.  (Published in September-October 2007 Academe)
• Take the Shackles Off! Commentary on Restructuring by AAUP President Cary Nelson.  (Published in September-October 2007 Academe)

(updated 4/08)