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Promoting Shared Governance

Since 1916, the AAUP has been ensuring meaningful faculty participation in institutional governance.

The AAUP staff provides advice and assistance to faculty members throughout the country on matters of academic governance.

The staff also receives, on behalf of the Committee on College and University Governance, complaints of departures from the Association's recommended standards in this area. In 1991, the Association's Council made it possible for an AAUP annual meeting to sanction an institution for "substantial noncompliance with standards of academic governance."

The AAUP offers an award to recognize outstanding contributions to shared governance by administrators or trustees, and administers a memorial fund used to support lectures on academic freedom and shared governance at Association conferences.

For questions about governance issues, or to make a complaint, write to governance@aaup.org.

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Censure Actions by 2008 Annual Meeting

Delegates to the AAUP's Ninety-fourth Annual Meeting voted on June 14 to place University of New Haven on its list of censured administrations. At the same time, they voted to remove Philander Smith College and Southern University at New Orleans from the list. They voted to take no action against the administration of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. (6/14)

Nominate an Administrator or Trustee

The Ralph S. Brown Award for Shared Governance is given to a college or university administrator or trustee, or to a board of trustees, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to shared governance.