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Welcome to the Monthly AAUP Newsletter!
Newsflash: This newsletter, and other AAUP communications, will cease in 2025-2026 unless someone volunteers to take over as AAUP secretary. Contact metror@missouri.edu if you would be willing to take on this commitment (approx. 4 hours per month).
If you have an announcement you’d like to be included in this newsletter, please send it to aaup.mizzou@gmail.com.
Upcoming in our AAUP Chapter
Advocacy Day at the Capitol in Jeff City will be Thursday March 6, 10 am to 2 pm! Join our group to discuss legislation related to higher education and to share information about academic freedom with lawmakers.
AAUP Chapter Meeting, Tuesday February 4 at 4 pm. Hybrid, in Townsend 223 and on Zoom.
General Faculty Meeting Tuesday March 18 at 3:30 pm, followed by social at ITAP.
ICYMI
Thanks to those who attended the November General Faculty Meeting, and our Happy Hour afterward. The AAUP Leadership Team is following up on the issues of academic freedom and the concerns about student events that were raised there in monthly meetings with the Provost and other university staff. To learn more or participate in these meetings, please email karians@missouri.edu.
Our Work in National Context
Chronicle of Higher Education, The Campus in the Second Era of Trump. Read different perspectives on what comes next.
Number One in Football, Last in Faculty Salary. Sound familiar? At University of Oregon, which has some similarities to Mizzou, a strike seems imminent. You can support the United Academics of the University of Oregon’s attempts to secure a contract here.
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Join AAUP’s leadership on campus! We are currently looking for replacements for our Vice President (Martha Kelly has started a new job in North Carolina) and Secretary (Rose Metro’s term ends in December 2024, but she can help train up a new person in Spring 2026).
Sincerely,
Mizzou AAUP Leadership
President: Steve Karian
Vice President: [currently vacant]
Secretary: Rose Metro
Treasurer: Jim Van Dyke
Executive Committee: Jenny Bossaller, Sam Cohen, Noah Heringman, Seth Howes, Rabia Gregory, Ted Koditschek, Noel Kopriva, Chuck Munter, Charles Nilon, Srirupa Prasad, Carol Ward
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