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President’s Column: We are a National Force

by José Padín, President Member-leaders representing AAUP chapters from colleges and universities across the United States converged in Washington, D.C., June 15-19, for a rich, productive, and at times even inspiring Annual Meeting, the largest, most representative, gathering of our professions in the country.   This month I would like to briefly describe what takes place at the Annual Meeting — a quick way to see how our local efforts are organized into a national force.   Our national AAUP is a sturdy tree trunk made up of three trunks that make up an inseparable braid:   AAUP: Continues the…

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Willamette AAUP: We are Stronger Together

by Frann Michel, President, Willamette-AAUP   At Willamette University, faculty-student organizing brought the Board of Trustees to the negotiating table:  we are stronger together.   Last summer, 2015, a small number of faculty (both T and NTT) of the College of Liberal Arts at Willamette University had a few meetings with organizers from AAUP-OR and formed an advocacy chapter (http://www.wuaaup.org/). Willamette University is a private institution, consisting of an undergraduate college (about 2000 students, 135 faculty) and graduate schools of Law and Management (about 650 students combined); the Master’s Program in Education closed in 2014, in a process criticized by…

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