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AAUP Joins Forces with SUNY Union
At a May 31 press conference in Albany, New York, AAUP president Jane Buck and AAUP general secretary Mary Burgan joined representatives of United University Professions (UUP) to announce that the two organizations had established a new relationship to protect the common interests of their members. The UUP represents more than twenty-three thousand academic and professional faculty members on twenty-nine campuses of the State University of New York.
"Through this relationship," said UUP president William Scheuerman, "the UUP and the AAUP will speak with one voice to safeguard the principles of academic freedom and shared governance. Together, we will continue to monitor the actions of the SUNY board of trustees to ensure that its policies do not infringe on the faculty's integral role in academe and the professional judgments they make in the educational environment."
"The AAUP's new relationship with the UUP," added AAUP general secretary Mary Burgan, "will promote greater unity among higher education unions. This is especially important at the present time, when activist university trustees nationwide are politicizing themselves as policy-making 'reformers' rather than acting to promote public confidence in their institutions and programs."
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