UNC Charlotte AAUP Mission Statement
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (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, post‐doctoral 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.
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UNC Charlotte AAUP Initiatives
Living Wage
to promote the economic security and rights of faculty, graduate students, staff, and hourly workers, all of whom are essential to the university
Shared Governance
to preserve higher education’s core mission and values through genuine shared governance
Academic Freedom
to protect academic freedom for the purpose of ensuring the university's mission to enhance the common good
Resisting corporatization
to support educators, not corporate leaders, in guiding the UNC system and its campuses
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AAUP Condemns Abduction and Assault of Chris Smalls
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AAUP Letter Supports CUNY Law Professor Ramzi Kassem
Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
DOJ Investigation at George Mason Is an Attack on Academic Freedom
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
The AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions, calling for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working conditions, and student learning conditions as advancements in AI technologies accelerate.
New Report on the State of Academic Governance in Community Colleges
The new AAUP Community College Shared Governance Survey, conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, provides information about what practices prevail nationally across twenty-six areas of institutional decision-making and how they compare with normative standards of academic governance in community colleges, filling an important and often overlooked void in the higher education governance literature.