Welcome to the Lake Forest College advocacy chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)!
The mission of the AAUP is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country's colleges and universities.
Join the Lake Forest College-AAUP chapter: https://bit.ly/lfcaaup
Take our AAUP All Faculty Survey -closing Feb. 13, 2026! This will help inform the work of the chapter: https://forms.gle/7BtCjG4TcHqG7kw99
Lake Forest College-AAUP has existed for decades but was relaunched in the spring of 2024. Our Executive Committee officers are:
President: Cristina Groeger (groeger@lakeforest.edu)
Vice President: Stephanie Caparelli
Secretary: Ben Swerdlow
Treasurer: Sara Jamshidi
Our Standing Committees are:
Faculty Governance & Elections Committee
Sara Jamshidi (chair)
Chloe Johnston
Ajar Chekirova
Desmond Odugu
Non-Tenure Track Faculty Committee
Katy Reedy (co-chair)
Adina Stanculescu (co-chair)
Chris White
Academic Freedom Committee
Brian McCammack (co-chair)
Hannah Carlson (co-chair)
Compensation & Benefits Committee
Jim Marquardt (co-chair)
Rudi Batzell (co-chair)
Civil Rights Committee
João Gregoire (co-chair)
Membership Committee
Will Conrad (co-chair)
Dave Park (co-chair)
Siobhan Moroney
Community Solidarity Committee (ad hoc)
Natalia Gutierrez-Jones (chair)
Our Chapter Bylaws are linked here.