MU-AAUP MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

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OCTOBER 2026

Upcoming in our AAUP Chapter

• The General Faculty Meeting is 3:30-5:00, Weds Nov 4 in Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union. Join us Happy Hour afterwards at Uprise.

• If there’s a question you’d like to have asked at the General Faculty Meeting but you don’t feel comfortable doing so yourself, feel free to send it to our gmail address, and we will do our best to ask it. 

• To spread the word about our AAUP chapter, we’ll be putting the attached flyer in faculty mailboxes sometime this semester. Feel free to print it out and distribute it yourself if you have friends who are curious about what we do!

ICYMI 

• We had a great discussion at our Happy Hour in October. We discussed planning a panel discussion on AI in Higher Education in the Spring. 

Our Work in National Context

• AAUP is supporting non-citizen academics in fighting the Trump administration’s $100,000 H1B Visa fees, and a judge blocked implementation of this fee. This issue is important to colleagues on our campus with this type of visa!

• At Rutgers University, where AAUP is a union with bargaining rights, they got academic freedom written into their contract.

Get Involved

• Join AAUP's national organization

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Sincerely,

Mizzou AAUP Leadership

President: Steve Karian

Vice President: Noël Kopriva

Secretary: Rose Metro

Treasurer: Jim Van Dyke 

Executive Committee: Sam Cohen, Noah Heringman, Rabia Gregory, Cristina Mislán, Chuck Munter, Srirupa Prasad