AAUP Policy Statements
Statement on Graduate Students . 1999. (Adopted 2000.)
Regulation 14, "Graduate Student Academic Staff," in the AAUP's Recommended Institutional Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
AAUP Actions & Initiatives
AAUP Actions on Behalf of Striking New York University Graduate Assistants
Other Related Print Resources
On December 12, 2005, the director of government relations for the national AAUP and the NYU AAUP chapter leadership wrote to New York Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (.pdf) and Charles E. Schumer (.pdf) to ask for their support for the NYU Graduate Students.
Support for NYU Graduate Students. 2005. By Jane Buck. Op-ed article from AAUP president.
Other AAUP Actions & Initiatives
Resolution on Graduate Student Employee Bargaining. 2005. Reaffirms the AAUP’s support for the right of graduate student employees to choose representation by a collective bargaining agent.
Letter to Presidents of Yale and Columbia Universities. (.doc) 2005. AAUP Committee on Graduate and Professional Students. Letter urging universities to recognize the graduate student unions.
Academe: Magazine of the AAUP
Opinions expressed in Academe's contributed feature articles and reviews are those of the authors and do no necessarily represent the policies of the AAUP.
Graduate Education Is the Dubai of Higher Learning. January-February 2010. By Morgan Adamson.
To the Power of Many. January-February 2010. By Jamie Owen Daniel.
Why Graduate Students Reject the Fast Track. January-February 2009. By Mary Ann Mason, Marc Goulden, and Karie Frasch.
Rally for Graduate Assistants. May-June 2007. By Gwendolyn Bradley.
The Graduate Dean as Pope? May-June 2007. By Philip Cohen.
Response to the "Responsive PhD." May-June 2007. By David Huyssen.
New York University Grad Employees Call off Strike. January-February 2007. By Julie M. Schmid. Nota Bene.
Trained for Nothing. November-December 2005. By Joseph Heathcott.
How to Grade a Dissertation. November-December 2005. By Barbara E. Lovitts.
Hey, Capitol Hill: Fund Graduate Education. November-December 2005.
By Philip Cohen.
Let’s Keep the Dean After All. November-December 2005. By Robert Weisbuch.
Other Resources
Statement Before the Academic Labor Board Hearing. 2003. By Michael Mauer, AAUP director, Department of Organizing & Services. Delivered at Yale University on September 2003.
Graduate Assistants Make Big Gains. (.pdf) 2005. By Michael Bailey. AAUP in Action.
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions Wiki
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