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Racial Justice Resources The AAUP is committed to addressing systemic racism and working toward racial justice, in keeping with our mission to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good. Black lives matter, and for us this means that black people, including faculty and students, have the right to thrive and not just survive. Learn More 2020 Election Changes Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we are unable to hold the 2020 AAUP Conference and Biennial Meeting as scheduled. The election of AAUP officers and Council members scheduled for the Biennial Meeting will be conducted by a secret mail ballot of chapter and section delegates starting on or about June 19, 2020. Learn More Coronavirus Resources As the higher education community responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AAUP will continue to update its coronavirus information web page with resources from the government, other higher education organizations, and our chapters. Learn More Spring 2020 Academe Inspired by the AAUP’s statement In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education, this issue examines the complexities—conceptual, critical, structural, and political—of the production of knowledge. Joan W. Scott, professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, served as the guest editor of this special issue of the magazine. Learn More The Privatization Problem Abrupt transitions to remote learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought new urgency to concerns about contracts with for-profit online education corporations. Check out our resources and learn how you can get involved in making sure that higher education serves the common good, not private profit. Learn More Resources for Union Chapters We have a wide range of resources to support our unionized chapters. Find out about education and training, including our annual Summer Institute; guidance on collective bargaining topics such as organizing tactics and contract administration; institutional financial analysis; and our contract database. Learn More Pacific Lutheran University Added to List of Censured Administrations The governing Council of the AAUP voted to add Pacific Lutheran University to the AAUP’s list of censured administrations. The Council also voted to remove Clarkson College of Nebraska. Since 1938 the AAUP has censured administrations of higher education institutions for failing to observe generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure. Read More Oregon State University Faculty Secure First Union Contract Faculty at Oregon State University have agreed to terms on a historic first union contract, at a time of unprecedented challenges to higher education. Read More AAUP Report Identifies Key Factors to Watch following COVID-19 Pandemic The AAUP's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession provides a snapshot of faculty compensation for the 2019–20 academic year, as the country was on the brink of what may be the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression. Read More AAUP Joins Appellate Brief Supporting Affirmative Action The AAUP joined with the American Council on Education and thirty-nine other higher education associations in filing an amicus brief supporting a district court judge's decision in a case that challenged Harvard's admissions policy. The brief emphasizes the educational value of a diverse student body. Read More AAUP Announces 2020 Awards for Outstanding Faculty Activists The AAUP is proud to announce the recipients of the Georgina M. Smith Award, the Marilyn Sternberg Award, and the Outstanding Achievement Award. Read More AAUP Response to New Title IX Regulations The AAUP has issued a response to revised Title IX regulations that the US Department of Education released on May 6. The response, prepared by a subcommittee of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the Committee on Gender and Sexuality in the Academic Profession, comments on some aspects of the revised regulations that represent small steps forward and others that represent large steps backward. Read More AAUP Congratulates Faculty, Administration of College of Southern Nevada for Reaching Agreement After three and a half years of negotiations, the AAUP faculty bargaining unit at the College of Southern Nevada--part of the Nevada Faculty Alliance--has ratified its first contract, which is now pending before the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents. Rudy Fichtenbaum, president of the AAUP, released a statement in support of the chapter’s hard-fought contract. Read More AAUP Offers Guidance for Reopening Campuses The AAUP has issued guidance on reopening campuses for our chapters, faculty governing bodies, and administrations. The guidance, which is consistent with existing AAUP policies and standards, emphasizes the health and safety of students, faculty, and staff and the importance of faculty involvement in decisions related to instruction. Read More AAUP and AFT Urge Education Department to Rescind Proposed Rules for Distance Education The AAUP and the AFT have submitted joint comments urging the Department of Education to rescind proposed rules for distance education, citing the importance of interaction between students and faculty and the dangers of outsourcing core educational responsibilities. Read More Washington Post In the rush to bring students to campus, professors ask: What about us? The Washington Post speaks to three AAUP chapters, Wright State University, Purdue University and the University of Tulsa, for their perspective on safely re-opening campuses. Inside Higher Education New Analysis of Faculty Salary and Benefits Data Inside Higher Education covers the AAUP's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession. NBC News Trump administration weighs suspending program for foreign students, prompting backlash from business, tech "Suspending or ending OPT makes no practical sense — it solves no problem, it reduces the quality of America's higher education system, and it threatens the international exchange of ideas so vital to academic freedom," said Julie Schmid, executive director of the AAUP. The Columbus Dispatch Ohio University Faculty, Staff Protest Layoffs, Budget Cuts The OU AAUP chapter has called for the administration “to cut from the top” first before faculty and staff cuts, as well as rescind and halt layoffs during the pandemic. Chillicothe Gazette Ohio University Professors Pass No-Confidence Resolution in University President The Ohio University AAUP chapter introduced and passed a resolution of no-confidence in University President Duane Nellis and Vice President of Finance Deb Shaffer after demanding that layoffs of the faculty and staff involved be reversed "until a process of true shared governance and transparency can be established and implemented." Inside Higher Education A Requiem for Academics The mounting death toll from COVID-19 among professors is tragic for all those whose lives are touched. And the loss of valued colleagues brings with it a loss of the institutional knowledge that helps faculty govern their institutions and departments. Inside Higher Education Professor Pay Is Flat -- Again Inside Higher Ed covers the annual Faculty Compensation Survey, noting that the AAUP’s data, collected before the disruption of US higher education by the COVID-19 pandemic, "will serve as important benchmarks when institutions look at faculty pay in reassessing their budgets." Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Officials and Advocates Seek to Halt Title IX Rule Changes Amid COVID-19 Disruptions The AAUP announced agreement last week with the attorneys general, stating that the COVID-19 crisis “severely constrains the ability of educational institutions’ administrations, faculty, staff and students to engage in meaningful shared governance to address new and complex Title IX regulations.” Seacoast Online UNH, lecturers union agree on contract UNH Lecturers United-AAUP and the University of New Hampshire jointly announced they have reached an agreement on a new contract. The new collective bargaining agreement runs through June 30, 2022. Lecturers had been working without a contract for the past couple of years. The Daily Beast Right-Wing Tricksters Want to Discredit Academia by Recording Zoom Classes The AAUP’s Hans-Joerg Tiede on exposés of liberal bias: “For all the concern these days that conservatives are expressing for free expression in universities, activities such as these seem to indicate a different interest in the suppression of views.” Inside Higher Education Colleges Ask Students to Leave Campuses In an article about the impact of COVID-19, AAUP president Rudy Fichtenbaum said he is hearing from members that decisions about closing campuses or moving instruction online “are being made without adequate faculty involvement in decision-making.” 2020 Summer Institute Online July 7, 2020 to August 4, 2020 We will hold an online Summer Institute with free webinars every Tuesday and Thursday between July 7 and August 4 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EDT. Due to guidance issued by the CDC and state and local governments, we are unable to hold the in-person Summer Institute previously scheduled. Read More COVID-19 and AAUP Office Operating Status Due to concerns about COVID-19, the AAUP office has transitioned to telework until further notice. The best way to reach staff members is to write to the appropriate email address for the staff member or department you need to contact. Please consult the AAUP staff page for guidance.  Read More 2020 Election Information Three officer positions—president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer—and two at-large Council positions are open for election. The election scheduled for the Biennial Meeting, which has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be conducted by a secret mail ballot of chapter and section delegates starting on or about June 19, 2020. Read More Career Center Did you know that the AAUP has an online career center to help colleges and universities connect with qualified applicants?  Read More American Association of University Professors 1133 Nineteenth Street, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-737-5900 aaup@aaup.org

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