AAUP champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes all faculty to promote economic security and quality education. Texas AAUP-AFT has members on 75 campuses and chapters on 30 campuses. Our advocacy and member benefits are amplified by the Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Texas AAUP-AFT is AFT Local 8041A.

2025年1月21日 · AAUP champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty and staff to promote economic security and quality education. Updated March 11, 2025. Home

2022年11月7日 · Since 1915, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been the central organizing force in higher ed due to its widely adopted principles on academic freedom [3] and shared goverance [4]. In Texas, the advocacy by AAUP members is amplified by the 66,000 members and 40 staff of Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Texas aaup-AFT CAMPUS CHAPTERS Alamo Colleges - public - Convener Tony Villanueva [email protected] Baylor University - private - Contact Convener Lynn Tatum [email protected]

Texas AAUP-AFT is Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 8041A. The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for

After the national AAUP affiliated with the AFT in summer 2022, the Texas AAUP conference began to coordinate with the AFT’s state federation on legislative advocacy, and it voted in March 2024 to affil­iate with Texas AFT.

The dangers of legislative preemption of academic decision making. A 2008 report from a libertarian think tank in North Carolina set the stage for a problematic kind of “transparency,” where posting faculty syllabi would “expose a professor’s deviation from normal expectations.”

American Association of University Professors (AAUP) started in 1915, was instrumental in establishing main principles of shared governance in academia, still in place today. Texas Tech University AAUP Chapter was established in December of 2021 to serve ALL of its faculty involved in teaching and research- tenure-track, non-tenure track, full ...

Our AAUP chapter worked with the BBDP, the NAACP LDF, Texas Students for DEI, and Texas AFT to draft amendments to bills, and our legislative allies matched them to legislators. We kept pressure on our university and college administrators, holding formal and informal meetings and demanding access to information about their strategy and what ...

Updates from AAUP at TXST Texas Legislature Outlaws DEI Practices on Campus as White Student Success Accelerates while African American Student Success Declines Dec 8, 2024