• AAUP Annual Meeting

    Delegates to the AAUP's Ninety-ninth Annual Meeting voted to place the administrations of Southern University, Baton Rouge and National Louis University  on the AAUP’s list of censured administrations and to remove Our Lady of Holy Cross College and St. Bonaventure University from the list.

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  • AAUP-CBC Fall Regional Meeting

    Fall is a beautiful time of year in New England. Mark your calendars for some of the country's best training and education on academic unionism. The AAUP-CBC Fall Regional Meeting will be on October 19 at the University of New Hampshire.

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  • AAUP-CBC Summer Institute

    Register today for the 2013 Summer Institute to be held July 25–28 in Seattle, Washington. This intensive, four-day series of workshops and seminars will prepare you to organize your colleagues, stand up for academic freedom, and advocate for research and teaching as the core priority of higher education.

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  • May-June Issue of Academe

    From a narrow, legalistic standpoint, it may be true that boards of trustees have all the power in American universities. But that ignores the real necessity of shared governance and raises questions about the connection between power and competence.

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Academic Freedom

Academic Freedom and Tenure: National Louis University

This report deals with the National Louis University administration’s actions in spring 2012 to discontinue nine degree programs and five nondegree certificate programs, to close four departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, and to terminate the appointments of at least sixty-three full-time faculty members, sixteen with tenure.

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Shared Governance

Faculty Communication with Governing Boards: Best Practices

From its initial statement of principles in 1915 and its earliest investigations into violations of academic freedom, the AAUP has emphasized the necessity of effective communication among those who participate in academic governance. Based on a consideration of relevant AAUP documents and in view of the current climate in higher education, this new draft statement urges greater communication between faculties and governing boards in colleges and universities.

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Organizing

Western Regional CBC Meeting

AAUP members from across the west gathered at Portland State University on April 6, 2013 for a combined Western Regional CBC Meeting and Oregon State Conference meeting.  For an online version of the agenda with links to featured presentations on the future of online education, the financial condition of west coast colleges & universities, and growing the strength & capacity of AAUP, click here.

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Resources

Annual Meeting Passes Three Resolutions

On Saturday, June 15, 2013,  the AAUP's Ninety-ninth Annual Meeting passed the following three resolutions: Resolution Supporting The Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act, Resolution in Support of Faculty Control of the Curriculum at the City University of New York, and a resolution on “Profile for a Twenty-First-Century President”

 

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AAUP Presents Award for Excellence in Coverage of Higher Education

This year’s shared award represents an acknowledgment that these two series represent the best kind of tough-minded, public-good journalism,  an achievement that is especially notable given the limited resources of newspapers today.

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Committee on Women in the Academic Profession Offers Both Praise and Suggestions

 The AAUP's Committee on Women in the Academic Profession wrote a letter to the United States Departments of Justice and Education concerning their resolution agreement regarding an investigation of the University of Montana's handling of allegations of sexual assault and harassment

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AAUP Censures Two Administrations, Removes Two from Censure

Delegates to the AAUP's Ninety-ninth Annual Meeting voted to place the administrations of Southern University, Baton Rouge and National Louis University  on the AAUP’s list of censured administrations and to remove Our Lady of Holy Cross College and St. Bonaventure University from the list. Censure by the AAUP informs the academic community that the administration of an institution has not adhered to generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure.

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AAUP Sees MOOCs as Spawning New Threats to Professors' Intellectual Property

During the opening session at the AAUP's Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education, past president Cary Nelson warned about MOOCs, saying ""If we lose the battle over intellectual property, it's over." Also, read the articles in Inside Higher Ed and Motherboard.

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Budget Woes Are No Excuse

Read this story and a sampling of other stories about the censure actions of the AAUP's Annual Meeting in The Advocate, Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Gazette, Olean Times Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Times-Picayune, and the Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier.

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Grades Vanishing from Some SCSU Students' Transcripts

About the mysteriously disappearing grades, AAUP's Robert Kreiser observes,  "Interference with the faculty's role in that regard by an administrative officer in any way, including the deletion of previously recorded grades, is inconsistent with basic principles of academic freedom and faculty governance,"

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New Test to Measure Faculty Collegiality Produces Some Dissension Itself

One of the highlights of the AAUP's Annual Conference will be four days of presentations by faculty members and administrators from around the country. The presentations begin Wednesday, June 12, and continue through Saturday, June 15. In this article, Peter Schmidt features one of the presentations.

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2013 AAUP-CBC Summer Institute
July 25, 2013

This intensive, four-day series of workshops and seminars will prepare you to organize your colleagues, stand up for academic freedom, and advocate for research and teaching as the core priority of higher education. July 25-28, 2013, in Seattle, WA.

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AAUP-CBC Fall Regional Meeting
October 19, 2013

Mark your calendars for some of the country's best training and education on academic unionism. The AAUP-CBC Fall Regional meeting will be on October 19 at the University of New Hampshire.

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Committee A Meeting
November 1, 2013

A meeting of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

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Committee A Meeting
June 5, 2014

A meeting of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

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Register Today for the Summer Institute

Even though you've missed the Early Bird rate, it's not too late to register for the Summer Institute. Don't miss out. Register today!

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Proposed Changes to AAUP Constitution

At its November 2012 meeting, the AAUP Council approved a number of proposed amendments to the AAUP Constitution that are recommended for adoption by the 2013 Annual Meeting. 

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Career Center

Did you know that AAUP has an online career center to help colleges and universities connect with qualified applicants? 

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