Can Reorganization Save the AAUP?

by E Wayne Ross on June 16, 2008

The Chronicle: Tales of the Reconstruction: Can Reorganization Save the AAUP?

The American Association of University Professors, the nation’s largest faculty organization, held its annual meeting here last weekend. As in every other year, the group’s agenda focused on concerns that are central to professors: academic freedom, retirement benefits, and the growing use of part-time faculty members. But the real news made at this year’s meeting of the AAUP was a vote on fundamental changes in the 93-year-old organization itself.