Why AAUP @ LC?

Why establish an American Association of University Professors Advocacy Chapter at LC?

• An AAUP chapter will be the only fully faculty-driven space for deliberation, agenda setting and advocacy on campus. Such a space does not exist with the established structure of faculty governance.

• An AAUP chapter will provide a faculty-driven space for supporting academic freedom. 

• An AAUP chapter will grant access to regional and national networks that offer resources that support faculty advocacy.

• An AAUP chapter will provide a sustainable context for building on the proven successes of faculty organizing. Those successes include the uniform raise policy and the establishment of a salary equity fund, both of which emerged from faculty initiatives outside the confines formal governance structure. Rather than continue to rely on ad hoc efforts that are sporadic, an AAUP chapter will create a sustainable context collective action. 

• An AAUP chapter, as an ally and resource, will be in a position to collaborate with and help empower the faculty committees. AAUP chapters have been effective, for example, in helping committees gaining institutional information that might otherwise be difficult to access.

• Strong membership in an AAUP chapter will establish an independent and collective faculty voice that can promote more effective institutional power for faculty members on a wide a range of issues.