Chronicle News Blog: AAUP Chief Urges Faculty Unions to Recognize Their ‘Larger Cultural Role’
New York — Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, challenged higher-education unions to “lead the charge for social justice” during his keynote speech here at an annual conference of faculty-union leaders and college administrators.
“Many unions don’t understand their larger cultural role,” Mr. Nelson, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in a lunchtime address to about 250 people. “A faculty union should be a source of public inspiration and solidarity. We need to envision a day when people outside the local look at a faculty union with admiration.” He spoke at a meeting of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.
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