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Report addressing collective bargaining as an effective instrument for achieving the basic AAUP objectives of protecting academic freedom, establishing and strengthening institutions of faculty governance, providing fair procedures for resolving grievances, promoting the economic well-being of faculty and other academic professionals, and advancing the interests of higher education.
Report by the Committee on College and University Governance on principles and recommended procedural standards concerning the evaluation of administrators. The statement supplements a paragraph in Faculty Participation in the Selection, Evaluation, and Retention of Administrators (1981).
Statement addressing the general allocation of authority in the governance of athletics. It emphasizes the obligation of the faculty to ensure academic primacy in an institution’s athletic program.
Report addressing a category of full-time non-tenure-track faculty appointments known as “professors of practice.”It recommends, in accordance with Association principles, that these faculty members be accorded tenure's protections.
Recommendations for improving the professional status of the growing number of non-tenure-track faculty; suggests minimum standards designed to protect the professional standing of all faculty.