About the AAUP
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to
advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental
professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure
higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the
AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the
standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic
freedom in this country's colleges and universities.
The AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure is
the definitive articulation of these principles and practices and is widely
accepted throughout the academic community. Our procedures ensuring
academic due process remain the model for professional employment
practices on campuses throughout the country. The AAUP's amicus briefs
before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts
address significant issues of academic freedom, and our policy statements
are frequently cited in court decisions.
More than a thousand faculty members call on the AAUP each year for advice
and assistance. We are best known for assisting individual faculty members
when there is the probability that academic freedom or due process rights
have been violated. In addition to this "casework," the Association works
with Congress and state legislators to promote effective higher education
legislation and promotes the profession and the purposes of higher
education in the public eye. College presidents and administrators rely on
Association-developed policy statements and procedural guidelines. The
Association has recently issued statements on topics such as freedom in the
classroom, conversion of contingent faculty appointments to the tenure
track, protecting an independent faculty voice, and work and family policies.
The AAUP annually publishes a nationally acclaimed faculty compensation
survey that includes a comprehensive analysis of faculty salaries and
benefits.
Membership in the national organization is open to all faculty, librarians, and
academic professionals at two- and four-year accredited public and private
colleges and universities. Current membership is about 47,000, with over
500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations. The Association is
governed by an elected national Council that meets twice a year, and by an
Executive Committee that meets four times a year
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to
advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental
professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure
higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the
AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the
standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic
freedom in this country's colleges and universities.
The AAUP's 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure is
the definitive articulation of these principles and practices and is widely
accepted throughout the academic community. Our procedures ensuring
academic due process remain the model for professional employment
practices on campuses throughout the country. The AAUP's amicus briefs
before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts
address significant issues of academic freedom, and our policy statements
are frequently cited in court decisions.
More than a thousand faculty members call on the AAUP each year for advice
and assistance. We are best known for assisting individual faculty members
when there is the probability that academic freedom or due process rights
have been violated. In addition to this "casework," the Association works
with Congress and state legislators to promote effective higher education
legislation and promotes the profession and the purposes of higher
education in the public eye. College presidents and administrators rely on
Association-developed policy statements and procedural guidelines. The
Association has recently issued statements on topics such as freedom in the
classroom, conversion of contingent faculty appointments to the tenure
track, protecting an independent faculty voice, and work and family policies.
The AAUP annually publishes a nationally acclaimed faculty compensation
survey that includes a comprehensive analysis of faculty salaries and
benefits.
Membership in the national organization is open to all faculty, librarians, and
academic professionals at two- and four-year accredited public and private
colleges and universities. Current membership is about 47,000, with over
500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations. The Association is
governed by an elected national Council that meets twice a year, and by an
Executive Committee that meets four times a year
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Editor Cary Nelson University of Illinois AAUP President Managing Editor Gwendolyn Bradley AAUP Communications Director Copyeditor Jennifer Salopek Editorial Board Ernst Benjamin Past AAUP General Secretary Michael Bérubé Pennsylvania State University Matthew Finkin University of Illinois Mary Gray American University Jordan Kurland AAUP Associate General Secretary Anita Levy AAUP Associate Secretary Debra Nails Michigan State University Robert Post Yale University David Rabban University of Texas Adolph Reed University of Pennsylvania Gary Rhoades University of Arizona AAUP General Secretary Ellen Schrecker Yeshiva University |
