AAUP At-Large Chapter

At the June 2019 AAUP Annual Meeting, the membership voted to approve a set of organizational changes as part of the association’s restructuring proposal, including the creation of a new at-large chapter, effective January 1, 2020. The at-large chapter is made up of individual AAUP members who are not eligible for membership in a campus chapter of the AAUP. An overview of restructuring is available here.

The primary purpose of the new at-large chapter is to provide its members with the opportunity to nominate and elect delegates to the AAUP biennial meeting, where the delegates will cast the votes of the chapter in the election of AAUP officers and on other matters. As a national chapter, the at-large chapter does not represent individual members in disputes, nor does it intervene on behalf of its members at their institutions. At-large chapter members are encouraged to form their own campus AAUP chapter if they are interested in addressing specific issues or situations on their campus. 

Officers (2023-2025)

Sally Dear-Healey, President
Henry Reichman, Vice President 
Tatiana Mann, Secretary-Treasurer
Dr. Janet Chappell, Board Member 
J. Ward Morrow, Board Member

Mariah Quinn, staff

Incoming Officers (June 2025-2027)

Henry Reichman, President
Vice President, (Vacant)
Secretary-Treasurer, (Vacant)
Sally Dear-Healey, Board Member
Judy Rohrer, Board Member

Incoming At-Large Chapter Officer Bios (2025-2027)

Henry Reichman (President) 

Henry “Hank” Reichman is professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He served as AAUP first vice-president from 2012 to 2018 and as chair of the AAUP Foundation from 2014-2022. From 2012-2021 he chaired AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. He has served on six AAUP investigating committees, including most recently co-chairing its investigation of academic freedom in Florida, and co-authored numerous AAUP policy statements and reports. He is currently a member of AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance and a co-editor of the AAUP’s Academe blog. His book The Future of Academic Freedom was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2019. His Understanding Academic Freedom was also published by JHUP in October 2021; a second expanded edition came out in March. His Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools, was published by the American Library Association in three editions (1988, 1993, 2001).

At CSU East Bay Professor Reichman served as chair of the department of history from 1994-2003, as a member of the academic senate from 1995-2010, including three terms as chair, and on the CSU System academic senate from 2001-2010. He was named the CSUEB Outstanding Professor in 1998 and won the university’s faculty service award in 2005. He also served nine years on the California Faculty Association’s collective bargaining team. He has published numerous articles and reviews on academic freedom, university governance, and tenure and spoken at dozens of colleges and universities.

Professor Reichman earned the B.A. at Columbia and the Ph.D at UC Berkeley. His Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 was published by UC Press in 1987 and republished in 2021 as part of the press’s Voices Revived program.

Sally Dear-Healey (Board Member)

Sally Dear-Healey has served as the president of the National AAUP At-Large Chapter since 2020. Previously she served eight years as an elected District VIII Representative to the national AAUP Council as well as several committees, including the Committee on Gender and Sexuality. At the State level, Dear-Healey served as vice president and then president of the NYS Conference of the AAUP before resigning that position and subsequently being hired as their executive director, a position she has held since 2017. One of Sally's primary areas of interest beyond academic integrity and freedom is the mental health and well-being of faculty and professional staff, including adjunct/contingent faculty.

Judy Rohrer (Board Member)

Judy Rohrer (she/her) is a scholar-activist with expertise in a number of fields that animate critical interdisciplinary scholarship: feminist studies, queer studies, settler colonial studies, Indigenous studies, critical race theory, critical ethnic studies, and disability studies.  She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies at Eastern Washington University.  She joined AAUP as an at-large member after the 2024 presidential election because she was inspired by the critical work AAUP was, and is, doing to protect higher education and academic freedom.  She hopes to help build the at-large membership and encourage the creation of more AAUP chapters.

At-Large Chapter Officer Bios (2023-2025)

Sally Dear-Healey (President)

Sally Dear-Healey has served as the president of the National AAUP At-Large Chapter since 2020.  She previously was elected as a District VIII Representative to the national AAUP Council and served for eitght years. She also elected as vice president and then president of the NYS Conference of the AAUP before resigning that position and subsequently being hired as their executive director, a position she has held since 2017.

One of her primary areas of interest is the mental health and well-being of faculty, particularly adjunct/contingent faculty and issues related to equity, pay, promotion, tenure potential, and service requiremens and expectations, including both workload and role overload.

Henry Reichman (Vice-President) Hank Reichman is a professor emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay, Chair and served on Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure from 2012-21. He is the author of The Future of Academic Freedom and Understanding Academic Freedom

Dr. Tatiana Mann (Secretary-Treasurer) Dr. Tatiana Mann has been a member of the AAUP for 5 years and served as the founding president of the AAUP advocacy chapter at Texas Tech University and an officer of the AAUP At-Large Chapter. As an officer of the AAUP At-Large chapter over the last few years Mann has worked with her AAUP Executive board colleagues to bring awareness to the mission of the at-large chapter to its membership and in turn to find the best way to help AAUP at-large members throughout the country to form advocacy chapters on their own campuses. 

The mission of the AAUP is very important to Dr. Mann as she continues to work on behalf of the at-large chapter membership and beyond, to assure labor equity and fair employment conditions on university and college campuses.

Dr. Janet Chappell (At-Large Board Member)

Dr. Janet Chappell has professional experience across several industries, from education and business to public policy and administration. She has worked for various colleges and universities, such as Huntingdon College, Jefferson State Community College, Alabama State University, Montgomery Public Schools, the University of Phoenix, Colorado Technical University, and Columbia Southern University, where she currently serves as the MPA Program Faculty Lead.

Dr. Chappell is serving as an at-large board member to advocate for all professors, universities, and institutions. 

J. Ward Morrow (At-Large Board Member)

J. Ward Morrow is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, teaching labor law. Concurrently, he is an  assistant general counsel for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), where he recently negotiated the staff contract as a Chief Shop Steward for Local 2 Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU). 

He is serving as an an at-large board to help the at-large chapter attract new members and assist in training them in order to lead to greater collective bargaining rights for members.