AAUP in the News

Listen to Donna L. Potts, chair of the AAUP's Assembly of State Conferences, discussing campus assault and rape culture with host Angie Coiro and Chloe Angyal, editor at Feministing.

"We demand a voice and a role in making sure the institution is on the right track … [faculty expertise] needs to be acknowledged, appreciated and utilized. This is our freakin’ university." The AAUP's Irene Mulvey in the Fairfield Mirror

"A recent report by the AAUP revealed salary information for higher-education institutions nationwide, allowing for insight into how Ohio University compares at both the national and state levels."

Greg Loving, president of the University of Cincinnati AAUP chapter, calls on Governor Kasich "to appoint a widely respected person with significant experience in higher education to help guide UC into a better future of service to Ohio and to our community."

"Faculty are more intimately involved than any other group (as the Board might say, they are “stakeholders”) with carrying out research, teaching and service at the University. The success of the institution’s mission depends on its faculty."

"What quality of education are students receiving if the people teaching them are fearful of being fired for saying the wrong thing?" asked Jennifer Nichols, associate secretary in AAUP's department of academic freedom, tenure and governance.

[Donna] Potts, professor of English, served on the subcommittee of the American Association of University Professors that drafted a statement on sexual assault. The association's report...includes proposed policies to curb instances of sexual assault and provide greater support to victims of assault.

Listen to the AAUP's Robert Kreiser discuss the situation at the University of Virginia that resulted in the AAUP's investigative report.

AAUP's Jordan Kurland tells the New York Times, “I think that the sheer turnout should tell everybody, not just the trustees of N.Y.U. but the general public, that the professors — those who have basic responsibility for seeing through the academic processes — are much more involved than they have been in the past.”

AAUP member Lynn Tatum teaches religion while fighting for academic freedom

Negotiations between Kent State University’s Full-Time Non-Tenure Track (FTNTT) unit of the AAUP and the university began July 12, 2012.

Explaining the difference between assault and harassment, the AAUP's Anita Levy explains, "Unlike sexual harassment, which may not cross over into the realm of law enforcement, sexual assault straddles the boundary between university and local police, making it much more complicated and not as easy to provide recommendations the way that we do for other procedures on campus.”

Over the weekend, a Washington Post blog reprinted this article from the Jan-Feb issue of Academe over the weekend. The article now has over 2,700 comments and over 3,000 tweets.

"The American Association of University Professors has cautioned top officials of the Louisiana State University system that they appear to be trampling the rights of faculty members as they move to reorganize the system's governance."

"AAUP encourages both public and private institutions to go beyond the minimum coverage prescribed by the federal act and provide some form of paid family-care leave. (AAUP recommends that all educational institutions offer paid disability leaves for pregnancy, typically six to eight weeks.)"

After the Bowling Green State U administration announces plans to slash faculty numbers, the AAUP faculty union points out that "the result will increase the student-to-faculty ratio, class sizes will increase and the variety of classes decline. . . . students’ educational experience at BGSU will be diminished greatly. "

"Adjuncts are very precarious anyway,” AAUP's Gwendolyn Bradley tells NBC. “They usually have very low wages, and are often already below the thresholds for health care. But for those people who have it, being cut down to lose it is very devastating."

AAUP member Brent Graves examines the parallels between between union representation and state government.

Saranna Thornton, an economics professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia and chair of the American Association of University Professors' Committee on the Economic Status of the Profession, said that she found CareerCast's analysis "sophomoric at best."