Dear Colleague,
We hope to see you June 11–15, 2014, for the Association’s Annual Conference on the State of Higher Education (including the One-Hundredth Annual Meeting of the AAUP) in Washington, DC! (http://www.aaup.org/event/
View the complete conference program now available on our website.
Deadlines and Reminders
• June 5: Submit your delegate forms to the national office for AAUP-CBC and official AAUP annual meeting delegates. (After this date, please submit forms onsite at the Registration Desk).
• June 6 (Midnight EDT): Last day to register online. Onsite registration begins on June 11; onsite registration fee is $425 for members; $475 for non-members.
• Now: Contact your Congressional offices to make appointments for Capitol Hill Day (Thursday, June 12).
Events of Special Interest during the Conference:
Visit the AAUP Foundation table to learn more about the Foundation’s board of directors and its activities and programs, including centennial celebration activities.
Thursday and Friday, June 12–13:
Henry Reichman, chair of the AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, will deliver the opening plenary address, “Can I Tweet That? Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications.” Presentations by faculty members and administrators from around the country will address the role of faculty in institutional decision making, collective bargaining in higher education, faculty working off the tenure track, assessment and accountability, the corporatization of teaching and research, academic freedom, and MOOCs and online education.
Thursday, June 12:
Capitol Hill Day is your opportunity to meet with your senators and representative and tell the higher education story. If you will be participating, please sign up as part of the annual conference registration process. There is no fee, but pre-registration will enable us to send you materials beforehand. Contact your Congressional offices in advance to make an appointment, then attend an orientation session Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. (Capitol Hill Day is for AAUP members only.)
Risa Lieberwitz, professor of Labor and Employment Law at Cornell University, will be the featured speaker at the AAUP-CBC banquet. Her topic is "Expanding Unionization in Private Universities: New Possibilities Pending at the NLRB."
Friday, June 13:
The Friday plenary luncheon speaker will be Daniel Maxey of the Delphi Project, which studies contingency in academia.
Network with your colleagues at an evening cash bar reception with complimentary hors d’oeuvres.
Saturday, June 14:
Join us at a luncheon celebrating the AAUP’s centennial, featuring a special presentation by Joerg Tiede, Chair of the Committee on the History of the Association. The Committee on Community Colleges invites you to a community college sector meeting from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m.to meet with AAUP’s community college members to talk about issues that affect all of us–and what we can do to address them together!
At a banquet Saturday night, we will honor fifty-year members and present AAUP awards.
In addition, the conference includes meetings of the AAUP Executive Committee and Council, the AAUP-CBC, and the Assembly of State Conferences. The annual meeting plenary (Saturday, June 14) will consider important business items such as investigations of alleged violations of academic freedom and tenure.
For more information and updates, please visit the annual conference section of our website.
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, 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. Visit the AAUP website and Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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