Washington: Budget cuts revive AAUP chapter at WSU

by E Wayne Ross on April 13, 2009

Spokesman-Review: Budget cuts rekindle faculty group
AAUP advocates shared governance, protection of rights for members

Concern about budget cuts at Washington State University has prompted a resurgence of a national faculty rights organization on campus.

The American Association of University Professors, active in Pullman in the 1950s and 1970s, is recruiting members from among WSU faculty fearful of how the administration will respond to state spending cuts, according to applied statistics professor Rich Alldredge, president of the local chapter of the AAUP.