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- CJE/AAUP Winter Welcome: January 23
- Core Skills Training
- Membership Update/Chapter Officers
- AAUP National Resources
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Join AAUP
The ongoing attacks on higher-ed make it more urgent than ever for faculty around the country to come together. Here at SU we are building a voice and power on campus to truly represent and advocate for the common good of higher education.
To have a strong presence at SU and do the work we need to do on our own campus, as well as being able to support the national higher ed initiatives, having a substantial membership is crucial!
Membership is via a sliding scale based on salary and can be as low as $6.50/mo for adjuncts and under $20/mo for most SU faculty. PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING
CJE Faculty and Staff Winter Welcome: You’re Invited
Friday, January 23 | 4pm - 5:30pm | Wyckoff Reading Room (LEML 313)
Sponsored by the Center for Jesuit Education and the SU AAUP, the winter welcome will be a chance for conversation, community, and camaraderie. Light refreshments will be provided.
In Leading toward Liberation, Annmarie Caño writes “liberatory leadership is aimed at liberating systems and structures so that people can be fully human and do their best work to generate creative solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time." Let's come together and discuss what it means to be "fully human" and what it looks like to liberate the systems and structures that prevent us from doing our best work. |
AAUP Core Skills Trainings
Provided by the national AAUP, this training is 5 sessions that run from 3:30pm PST - 5:30pm PST on, 2/2, 2/4, 2/9, 2/11, 2/18 on Zoom. It is put on for free by the AAUP organizers as part of the "Organize Every Campus" initiative and is based on curriculum developed at the UC Berkeley Labor Center.
The format is short instructions and information followed by breakout group exercises with our cohort of SU participants (and potentially some people from other universities in the region).
Interested in attending the training? Email Alex and she will get you all the information, zoom links, etc. as it comes out.
Membership Update
Chapter Officers
Co-presidents: Sarah Cate and Alex Smith
Secretary-Treasurer: Mark Petterson
At-large: Russell Black
At-large: Dominic CodyKramers
At-large: Lydia Cooper
At-large: Kate Koppelman
At-large: Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
AAUP National Resources
Back-to-School Toolkit: resources on organizing, academic freedom and campus free speech, mass mobilization, racial justice and equality, supporting international communities, and digital safety to help you build strong chapters, protect campus communities, and escalate the fight back against the destruction of higher education in this country.
Advisory for Academic Workers: In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and other academic workers. It includes resources on what to do if you are experiencing targeted harassment, tips on digital security and engaging with social media, and resources available from the AAUP and the AFT.
About Us
AAUP is a national organization that has advocated and fought for both higher education and issues related to faculty welfare, shared governance, and academic freedom for over 100 years. In addition to the ongoing attacks on higher-ed and at the federal level, challenges to shared governance and to the value of faculty expertise here at SU make it more urgent than ever for faculty to build solidarity and a collective voice. The SU chapter of AAUP is dedicated to creating a space for all faculty and staff to be heard and to speaking with a unified voice on issues vital to our professional lives.
