awards

Ralph S. Brown Award for Shared Governance

This award, modeled after the Alexander Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom, was established in 1998. It was created in memory of Ralph S. Brown, who served as AAUP president and general counsel, and headed many AAUP committees during his forty-four years of service to the Association. Professor Brown taught law at Yale University.

Georgina M. Smith Award

The American Association of University Professors invites nominations for the Georgina M. Smith Award, which was established in 1979 to honor the memory of an AAUP leader, Professor Georgina M. Smith (Mathematics, Rutgers), who was a committed feminist and a strong supporter of her local faculty union. The award, in the form of a certificate of recognition, will be presented at the AAUP's Annual Meeting to a person who has provided exceptional leadership in a given year in improving the status of academic women or in academic collective bargaining and through that work has improved the profession in general.

Tacey Award

The Tacey Award will be presented to an individual for outstanding service to a conference over a number of years. William S. Tacey was elected to the AAUP membership in January 1947, when he was an Instructor of Speech at what was then Pennsylvania State College. He moved on to the University of Pennsylvania where he was AAUP chapter president (1951-1954), vice president (1954-1955), and president (1955-1957). Bill served as secretary (1957-1958) and president (1958-1960) of AAUP’s Pennsylvania Division. He was a member of AAUP’s national Committee F on Membership and Dues for two terms: 1957-1960 and 1960-1963. Bill Tacey was perhaps best known among AAUP activists as a founder of the Assembly of State and Regional Conferences serving as president (1960-1963) and for several years as editor of its newsletter “AAUP Reporter.”

Al Sumberg Award

The Al Sumberg Award will be presented to a person or organization that has been particularly effective in lobbying on issues furthering the interests of higher education or in furthering such lobbying efforts on the state level. Download the application (doc). Please submit your entry by e-mail to the chair of the ASC Awards Committee, Donna Potts, by April 7. 

Beatrice G. Konheim Award

Given to a chapter for outstanding achievement in advancing the Association’s objectives in academic freedom, student rights and freedoms, the status of academic women, the elimination of discrimination against minorities, or the establishment of equal opportunity for members of college and university faculties. 

Awards Recognizing Chapters and Conferences

Hopper Travel Award

Outstanding Tabloid Style Conference Newsletter
Outstanding Conventional Style Conference Newsletter
Outstanding Chapter Newsletter
Outstanding Conference Web page
Outstanding Chapter Web page

Donald Payne Receives 2010 AAUP Recognition Award

 On June 10, the AAUP awarded the Henry T. Yost Award to Congressman Donald Payne of New Jersey in recognition of his outstanding leadership on behalf of higher education. 

The AAUP Congratulates Our Chapters and Conferences

In order to encourage and recognize membership growth in AAUP chapters and state conferences, the national AAUP announced that it would award travel scholarships to the conferences and chapters who had the highest numbers of new members (both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of the total faculty). 

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Iris Molotsky Award for Excellence in Coverage of Higher Education

The purpose of the award is to recognize and stimulate coverage of higher education nationally and to encourage thoughtful and comprehensive reporting of higher education issues. The AAUP Award is given for outstanding coverage of higher education exhibiting analytical and investigative reporting. Entries will be judged on the basis of their relevance to issues confronting higher education.

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