Shared Governance

"One Faculty" and Academic Governance

Hello. My name is Nicole, and I’m a contingent faculty member.

According to data compiled by the AAUP, that makes me part of the majority, a member of a group comprising more than 70 percent of total instructional staff appointments in American higher education today.  

Principles of Academic Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic must not become the occasion for administrations or governing boards to jettison normative principles of academic governance.

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AAUP Adds University of Akron to COVID-19 Governance Investigation

The University of Akron has been added to the AAUP’s ongoing investigation of the crisis in academic governance that has occurred in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association’s concerns regard actions taken by the University of Akron administration to terminate the appointments of ninety-six full-time faculty members in a manner that appears to have departed from normative standards of academic governance.

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New Survey Data Provides a Snapshot of Shared Governance Then and Now

The AAUP released the second report on data collected from the 2021 AAUP Shared Governance Survey, the first national survey on shared governance since 2001. Focusing on faculty roles in decision making areas at 585 randomly-sampled four-year institutions of higher education, the report notes that the survey presents a mixed picture of the current state of shared governance.

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Good and Bad News in Latest AAUP Report on Shared Governance

The AAUP's latest report on faculty governance finds over all, faculty representation is up over time, but faculty participation in presidential searches is down, as is full participation of part-time faculty members.

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