AAUP's purpose is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.

 

AAUP Studies/Positions on Higher Education [ .../issues/index.htm]:  Include:

Academic Freedom and Tenure:   “Institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interest of either the individual teacher or the institution as a whole. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition.”  1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure (with 1970 Interpretive Comments)

Governance;   Faculty Workload;  Part-Time and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Appointments;  many others of possible interest to the faculty and USD.

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ACADEME Online:  Online access to features in the AAUP bimonthly bulletin, including about 4 plus years back issues  - a valuable resource online and in print.

AAUP Policy & Reports, (The Red Book of AAUP, Latest Edition 9: 2001)

Conferences:  e.g. AAUP - USD  “Unity and Diversity” (Conference on academic freedom at religiously affiliated colleges and universities), March 13-16, 2003, IPJ USD

 

AAUP USD Dues:  Based on AAUP Dues – California

{Membership not required by USD}.

[For membership applications consult:   www.aaup.org]: National Dues (Mandatory):  Full Member $143;  Assoc. $ 108 ;  Entrant, Joint,. $72;  Part-Time $36; Graduate $10.

Chapter Dues:   * most chapter dues are collected locally directly by the chapter - *USD:  $5 donation suggested, collected directly by the chapter.  Amount (up to $5) set annually.

 

For additional information contact:  Thomas Kanneman, Prof. EE, Loma Hall 211,

AAUP USD President 2002-06;  email:  kanneman@sandiego.edu, Tel:  619-260-4628

Rev. 8/15/05.

 

 

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