Chapter Mission

Wesleyan AAUP is an Advocacy Chapter (not a collective bargaining chapter). We champion academic freedom, advance shared governance, and organize to promote economic security for all faculty. In accordance with the One Faculty campaign, the chapter advocates for faculty across rank and category, including professors of the practice, visiting faculty, and adjunct faculty. We educate the campus community about AAUP policies and standards, create autonomous sites and processes for faculty discussions, prepare faculty to participate in governance more effectively, and organize members to make change on campus.

Our mission is to:

• Promote the interests of our faculty (all those whose appointments consist primarily of teaching or research activities conducted at a professional level, including tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty, full-time and part-time faculty, librarians, research and teaching assistants, and postdocs)

• Defend academic freedom at Wesleyan University and throughout academe

• Encourage faculty participation in governance at Wesleyan University

• Protect and advance the professional status and interests of all faculty, including equal pay for equal work

• Promote administrative transparency and unrestricted dissemination of institutional data and information

• Facilitate the dissemination of information on higher education principles and practices

• Inform the academic community about AAUP standards, best practices, and policies