2014 AAUP Updates

On Saturday, December 20, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board published a significant decision involving the organizing rights of private-sector faculty members.

National Labor Relations Board decision significantly expands the right of employees, including faculty at private institutions, to use their employers' e-mail systems for union organizing.

Rudy Fichtenbaum wrote a letter to  the president of the Board of Governors University of Puerto Rico expressing the AAUP's support for the efforts currently being undertaken by the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors (APPU) to achieve collective bargaining for the faculty at the university.

The AAUP commends the University of Oregon faculty senate on its stand against the administration’s attempt to subvert faculty governance and weaken academic standards as means to undermine a potential Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation's strike.

The AAUP's Committee on Teaching, Research, and Publications has developed a survey, and urges you to provide us with information about your institution and your experience with faculty teaching evaluations.

Show your support for restoring colleges and universities as a public good by signing the AAUP Centennial Declaration.

The organizations will work together as partner organizations in "defense and promotion of academic freedom, shared university governance, and the economic security of all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education." 

The chapter will focus on increasing faculty recruitment, creating a faculty survey to better understand and respond to the concerns of current faculty members, and developing a more open dialogue between faculty.