The Chronicle News Blog: AAUP Takes Step Toward Splitting Its Union and Academic-Freedom Functions
The American Association of University Professors has given preliminary approval to a plan that would separate its union activities from the work it does on academic freedom. The plan also would create a new AAUP foundation to raise money for the struggling organization. It is unclear exactly when the restructuring would take place.
Membership in the AAUP has been declining for decades, and the restructuring is seen in part as a way to satisfy professors who want to be members of a professional association but do not want to have anything to do with a union. —Robin Wilson
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