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Summer Institute

See our photos and watch our videos from the Summer Institute!

July 23-26
Macalester College
St. Paul MN

Your students aren’t the only ones who know how to cram.

Get ready for a crash course in faculty leadership.

Mscalester CollegeThe annual Summer Institute is the AAUP’s premier resource for sharpening members’ leadership skills and training them in the arts of faculty advocacy. Packed with interactive workshops and seminars led by policy, legal, media, and organizing experts, this intensive weekend conference will boost your know-how as an activist in higher education and inspire your chapter’s goals for the coming year.

The 2009 Summer Institute includes workshops on:

  • the faculty’s leadership role in times of financial crisis
  • analyzing institutions’ financial documents
  • strengthening faculty handbook language
  • creating winning campaigns and targeted communications
  • organizing a successful membership drive
  • negotiating contracts and administering grievances
  • building a better tenure process, and more.

Join us for a dynamic four days of hands-on learning, discussion, and some serious fun!

Please e-mail us with questions about the Summer Institute.

Macalester College photo courtesy of Macalester College Relations Department.

(updated: 5/09)

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Call for Proposals

Do you have something to say about academic freedom, contingent labor, institutional rankings, budget cuts, online education, hiring, promotion and tenure, or other hot topics in higher ed? Submit a proposal to the AAUP Annual Conference. (8/30)

Upcoming Conferences

Mid-Atlantic Conference on Leadership Skills
September 25, 2010
Villanova, Pennsylvania

New Leaders Workshop
October 30, 2010
Louisville, Kentucky

AAUP Shared Governance Conference and Workshops
November 12–14, 2010
Washington, DC
Submit a proposal

AAUP Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education
June 8-12, 2011
Washington, DC
Submit a proposal

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