Pandemic Resources: AAUP Chapter, and State Conference Actions

This is a partial list of actions taken and statements made in response to the pandemic by AAUP chapters and conferences.

• "Community Information Share: The New School's Financial Sitation" analysis video (AAUP-TNS)

• "Management in Place of Leadership: Report on COVID-19 Campus Response Survey" (NYS AAUP Conference)

• Open letter to the Georgia Southern community regarding COVID-19 spread concerns  (GSU-AAUP)

• Statement on reopening Ohio University during an uncontrolled pandemic (OU-AAUP)

• Protest line from CUNY HQ to the Cuomo's office to protest state budget cuts & planned layoffs of thousands of adjunct faculty and part-time staff (PSC-CUNY)

• YouTube message and petition from medical and health science faculty (AAUP-BHSNJ)

• Union newsletter with important adjunct and COVID-19 info (CSU-AAUP)

• Proposal for temporary work-sharing to avoid layoffs (Rutgers AAUP-AFT)

• Decision-making information requests (Rider AAUP)

• Chapter statements on university policies(AAUP-OSU; UIC United Faculty)

• FAQs and messages to faculty (URI AAUP; UConn-AAUP)

• Morale boosters and affirmations (URI AAUP)

• Read more in the spring issue of Academe and on the Academe Blog.

Has your chapter done something we should list here? Please email smink@aaup.org.