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About the AAUP.
The mission of the AAUP, identified on the national website at aaup.org:
- 4/10/2025: Our chapter has signed an amicus brief supporting a preliminary injunction in AAUP v. Rubio.
- 4/7/2025: A letter sent to CLA Dean GerShun Avilez requesting the reconsideration of the pause to P&A mulit-year contract process.
- 3/27/2025: Please read the Standing with Non-Citizen and Immigrant Students and Colleagues letter to President Cunningham, signed by over 500 members of the University of Minnesota, with specific requests to support non-citizen students, staff, and faculty.
- 2/3/2025: A Statement in Support of the Report of the Task Force on Academic Freedom Protections for Contingent Faculty Appointments
- 1/21/2025: The Take Back the Senate Campaign begins!
- 1/15/2025: Materials used by Faculty Senators in preparation of the no-confidence vote of Interim President Ettinger and Provost Rachel Croson.
- 1/13/2025: A letter sent to the Administrative Hiring Task Force.
- 11/27/2024: Mayor Frey's Assault on Academic Freedom
- 10/14/2024: Todd Wolfson, the President of the AAUP (national), sent this letter to President Cunningham condemning the "unhiring" of Professor Raz Segal and asking that the offer be reinstated. The message was also sent to members of the Board of Regents, and members of the Faculty Consultative Committee.
- 7/1/2024: A letter sent to President Cunningham urging the reinstatement of the offer to Professor Raz Segal to be the director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
- 7/22/2024: An AAUP EC reply to the disappointing response from the President's Office to their July 1 letter.
- 6/12/2024: Urgent call to action! Read the email sent by the executive committee to Interim President Ettinger, Incoming President Cunningham, and Provost Croson regarding the administration's unilateral withdrawal of a tenure-stream job offer for esteemed historian Raz Segal to direct the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Then write to the administration expressing your concerns. More details can be found here. The letter sent by the executive committee can be found here.
- 2/15/2024: The Power of Higher Ed Organizing: A conversation with Rebecca Givan - a moderated discussion with the President and bargaining chair at Rutgers AAUP-AFT. Join us the learn more about how faculty at Rutgers built their organization and won their historic contract. Details available here.
- 1/3/2024: An email sent to Provost Croson from the executive committee regarding concerns about unit statement policy proposals.
- 12/27/2023: An opinion piece, "Coverage of antisemitism charge is reckless", in the Star Tribute Members by executive members of our AAUP chapter executive committee.
- 11/14/2023: Members of our AAUP chapter executive committee have written a letter to the editor in The Minnesota Daily: Calls to police campus speech against Israel must be rejected.
- 10/23/2023: Our AAUP chapter has issued a Statement on Defending Academic Freedom at the University of Minnesota
- 9/29/2023: Our AAUP chapter has issued a statement on Hamline University’s Recent “Academic Freedom and Cultural Perspectives: Challenges for Higher Ed Today and Tomorrow” Event
- Previous news items can be found here.
About the AAUP.
The mission of the AAUP, identified on the national website at aaup.org:
Advancing academic freedom and shared governance; defining professional values and standards; promoting the economic security of those who teach and research in higher education; organizing to make our goals a reality; and ensuring higher education's contribution to the common good.
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities chapter works to realize the AAUP mission on the campus. Its members, comprising people who teach or conduct research at the university, work both within and outside of the existing governance structure to further this mission. The activities of the chapter encompass the following:
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- An organizational role, in which it functions to identify issues from the grassroots and to involve members and non-members in thinking through solutions
- An advocacy role, in which it apprises the administration and governance of issues and follows up with support from its constituency towards ensuring their resolution
- A synergistic role with governance, where its members work within the existing governance structure to represent its perspectives and to raise relevant issues
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