The Chronicle News Blog: Presidential Campaign Heats Up at Professors’ Association
National attention is on the U.S. presidential campaign, but for higher education another election is looming.
Members of the country’s largest faculty group — the American Association of University Professors — will cast ballots in March to determine the organization’s president for the next two years. The race pits Cary Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has held the top AAUP job since 2006, against a challenger, Tom Guild.
Mr. Guild is a professor emeritus at the University of Central Oklahoma and a visiting professor of legal studies at Oklahoma City University. He ran against Mr. Nelson in 2004 and lost.
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