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 (2025-27)
Henry Reichman, President
Vice President, (Vacant)
Secretary-Treasurer, (Vacant)
Sally Dear-Healey, Board Member
Judy Rohrer, Board Member
Mariah Quinn, staff
At-Large Chapter Officer Bios
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.