How will restructuring change the AAUP?
The major change is that the collective bargaining support and fundraising functions will each be split off into separate entities that will coordinate their work with the AAUP. When the AAUP becomes a professional association, it will still have the same name, mission, staff, membership and governance as it has today. Moreover, the organization will continue to provide leadership on issues of academic freedom, shared governance, and institutional due process; publish Academe and various other materials; offer training programs; and lobby at the federal and state levels. The collective bargaining support functions now provided by the CBC will continue, but through a separate union (the AAUP-CBC) rather than through the main AAUP itself. The development activities, both fundraising and seeking grant support, will move to a foundation. As the following FAQs will show, the relationship of individual members to the AAUP, and much else about the AAUP’s operations, will remain unchanged.
