The Chronicle: The AAUP at 92: Amid Declining Membership, a Venerable Organization Faces Battles on Many Fronts
Ernst Benjamin has already retired once from the American Association of University Professors. He has a white beard and receding white hair. He just turned 70.
But these days, he is back in the general secretary’s corner office, in a job he gave up more than a decade ago. He was called in late last year to help steer the association through management and financial crises that threaten its very existence.
“I didn’t have anyone else to go to,” says Cary Nelson, president of the AAUP.
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