Posted May 31, 2009
NC-AAUP's Correspondance to NC House of Representatives: Draft Budget Would Devastate Public Higher Education in North Carolina

NEW OFFICERS AND DELEGATES ELECTED FOR POSITIONS STARTING MAY 2009
The election committee met and counted ballots April 20, and the results are as follows:

Officers:
Gale Isaacs, Vice President of NC-AAUP, 116 votes
Dana DeSoto, Treasurer of NC-AAUP, 119 votes (write-in, Toby Poplin, 1 vote)
Richie Zweigenhaft, NC-AAUP Member at large, private institutions, 117 votes (write-in, Michael Hood, 1 vote)

Delegates to the national AAUP meeting (top 6 of 7 candidates elected)
Cat Warren, 114 votes
Jeff Butts, 111 votes
David Ayers, 102 votes
Purification Martinez, 95 votes
Kenneth Mentor, 90 votes
Sophia Kathariou, 90 votes
Ralph Scott, 72 votes
Michael Hood, (write-in, 1 vote)
Zach Robinson (write-in, 1 vote)

POSTED APRIL 17, 2009
NC-AAUP's Correspondance on Item of Concern: Meaningful faculty and staff involvement in budgeting at UNC system campuses.

POSTED FEB. 24, 2009
NC-AAUP's Correspondance on Item of Concern: UNC-Chapel Hill's announcement of using an unstipulated amount from an anonymous UNC alumni to hire Bain & Co., a global accounting firm, to suggest ways of "streamlining" UNC-Chapel Hill

POSTED MARCH 30, 2009
Chancellor Holden Thorp's response to NC-AAUP on Bain & Co. contract

The NC-AAUP Annual Conference
was held March 20-21, 2009, at the FedEx Global Education Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Our keynote speaker on Friday, March 20, at 7 p.m., was Marc Bousquet, author of How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. His talk was free and open to the public; about 115 people attended the event.
Notes a columnist in The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Marc Bousquet's How the University Works should be required reading for anyone with an interest in the future of higher education, including administrators, faculty members, graduate students, and — even more significantly — undergraduates and their parents...." Read More

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POSTED AUG. 28, 2008
NC-AAUP's Correspondance on Academic Freedom Issue to Erskine Bowles, President of UNC System

New AAUP Chapters at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Belmont Abbey College, Lees-McRae College, East Carolina University (revived), Guilford College, and North Carolina State University.. .Read More

NC-AAUP is a core member of HOPE: The NC-AAUP has long supported repeal of North Carolina's antiquated anti-collective bargaining law (NCGS §95-98), which a United Nations investigating committee has declared violates basic rights of freedom of association. Read More