INSIDE HIGHER ED
March 17

Why Contingent Faculty Must Lead

By Marc Bousquet

This is a moment of historic change for the American Association of
University Professors. With the majority of AAUP members now
participating in collective bargaining, it has become necessary to
accommodate federal labor law with a formal re-structuring. Over the
next two or three years, AAUP will create three financially separate but
philosophically interlocking entities. At the core will remain the
traditional advocacy organization that continues the association’s
90-year mission to speak for the profession as a whole. Closely allied
will be an AAUP foundation free to seek grant support and development
funding from major donors and a labor organization housing those
chapters that bargain collectively. In this arduous and expensive
transition, the association’s staff and officers have uncovered and
reformed issues in the membership department affecting dues income (via
late or inaccurate renewal notices) and financial record-keeping.

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