AAUP general secretary Gary Rhoades heads the staff of the national office in Washington, D.C.
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A Day to Defend Public Education.
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Recent Presentations
Watch "We Are All Contingent" presented at the AAUP's "Contingent Faculty: The New Majority" event held on Virginia Commonwealth University's campus on February 26, 2010. (video)
Rhoades discusses the state of higher education in this October 2009 presentation to the AAUP chapter at the University of Cincinnati (video)
Rhoades on Transforming our Focus: Intellectual Capital, Economic Stimulus, and the Fourth `A’, Academics; a February 2009 presentation to the Higher Education Group of Washington
Recent Academe Columns
Academia Without the AAUP. July-August 2010.
The Freedom to Engage. May-June 2010.
A Faculty Voice. January-February 2010.
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Biography
Gary Rhoades began his term as general secretary in January 2009 after twelve years as professor of higher education at the University of Arizona and director of the university’s Center for the Study of Higher Education and more than twenty-five years in the field of higher education. Rhoades holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on professions in academe, university restructuring, and science and technology issues in higher education. He is widely respected as a meticulous researcher, incisive writer, and engaging lecturer by an international audience.
Rhoades has given keynote addresses recently to researchers and policymakers in England, Finland, Italy, Japan, and Mexico, and has spoken at the national meetings of groups including the European Association for Institutional Research, the American Educational Research Association, the Society for Social Studies of Science, and the American Sociological Association. Rhoades has worked at the local, regional, and national levels with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, as well as with the AAUP. Rhoades is the former president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
Rhoades is the author of Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor (SUNY Press, 1998) and Academic Capitalism and the New Economy with Sheila Slaughter (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). He is currently working on two books, one on strategic positioning in higher education and the other on academic unions.
Among his extensive record of journal articles are: “Is Academic Capitalism, U.S. Style, for Japan?” (Higher Education Forum 2008); “Local Cosmopolitans and Cosmopolitan Locals: Towards New Models of Professionals in the Academy” with Judy Marquez Kiyama, Rudy McCormick, and Marisol Quiroz (Review of Higher Education 2007); “Technology Enhanced Courses and a Mode III Organization of Instructional Work” (Tertiary Education and Management 2007); “Community College Faculty and Web-Based Classes” with Vernon Smith (Thought & Action 2006); “The Higher Education We Choose: A Question of Balance” (Review of Higher Education 2006); and “Graduate Employee Unionization as Symbol of and Challenge to the Corporatization of U.S. Research Universities” with Rob Rhoads (Journal of Higher Education 2005).
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(updated 8/10)