ELECTION RESULTS FOR APRIL 2008 NC-AAUP

New Slate of Officers Elected, as well as delegates to AAUP meeting in June.

Our election results are in, and we have a slate of new officers who will begin their two-year terms starting May 1, 2008. Our thanks to everyone who participated in this process, and congratulations to the new officers.

President – May 2008 to May 2010:
Martha McCaughey, Appalachian State University - 103 votes
(no write-ins)
Secretary – May 2008 to May 2010
Janet Land, Gardner-Webb University - 101 votes
(1 write-in for Toby Poplin)
Member-at-Large, Public Institutions – May 2008 to May 2010
Purificacion Martinez, East Carolina University - 99 votes
(no write-ins)

Continuing in their positions another year are Steve Wing, UNC-Chapel Hill, Vice President; Jerry Pubantz, UNC-Greensboro, Treasurer; and
Kent Blevins, Member-at-large, Private institutions.

Cat Warren, current president, will become immediate past president, and stay on the executive committee for a two-year term. Both
Gabrielle Weinberger, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Secretary; and Minnie
Sangster, NCCU, Member-at-large, Public Institutions, will finish
their terms April 30.

We also have a group of representatives who will go up to the national
AAUP meeting June 12-15. We thank them for the work they will be doing
as well.

Delegates to Assembly of State Conferences at National Meeting:
Cat Warren, North Carolina State University - 95 votes
Jeffery Butts, Appalachian State University - 91 votes
Andrew Saldino, Lees-McRae College - 88 votes
Ralph Scott, East Carolina University - 85 votes
(1 write-in for Henry Ferrell)

Delegates to AAUP National Meeting:
Chuck Tryon, Fayetteville State University - 93 votes
Terrell Hayes, High Point University - 88 votes
(1 write-in for Steve Wing)

ABOUT THE NEW OFFICER AND DELEGATES

NC-AAUP President
Martha McCaughey

Martha McCaughey is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Appalachian State University, having joined the UNC system in 2003.  In the past four years, she has served as AAUP Chapter President, NC-AAUP Secretary, Member at Large/Committee A Liaison for National AAUP's Association of State Conferences, and NC-AAUP Foundation Board of Directors President.  

NC-AAUP Secretary
Janet S. Land

Janet Land is a professor of English at Gardner-Webb University.

Education and Experience: B.S., 1973, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; M.A., 1985, East Carolina University; Ph.D., 1993, University of South Carolina.  Assistant Professor – Professor, 1993 – present, Gardner-Webb University.  Chairperson, Department of English Language and Literature, 2002 – 2007.  Faculty Vice-Chair, 2007 – present.

Chapter Activities: Vice- President – 2007 – present; Treasurer, 2005 – 2007.

NC-AAUP Member-at-large, Public Institutions
Purificación Martínez

In 1986 I graduated with a Licenciatura en Filología Hispánica from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. In 1996 I obtained by Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, with a specialization in Medieval Hispanic Literature. In 2001 I became an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University.

My experiences studying and working in two different academic systems make me aware of the precious and yet precarious nature of American academia. In comparison to the closed and highly hierarchical European universities, American universities are vital, democratic and open. But these characteristics were not a given, they were achieved by the hard work of organizations like AAUP and thousands of individuals who built and maintain the pillars of our academic wellbeing: shared governance and academic freedom. This well being cannot be taken for granted.

I became a member of AAUP at the same time that I got my first job as a contingency faculty. But it was not until I attended the Assembly of State Conferences Leadership Training this past fall. that I understood the larger context in which to place my own extensive work in shared governance at my campus. I have served in almost all the Faculty Senate committees in my institution, and I have been a senator and a Faculty Assembly member, but my understanding and application of AAUP's principles is better illustrated by my work as chair of the Faculty Governance Committee at ECU. In the past three years, the committee has achieved the following: revised the tenure and promotion policies, created policies and procedures for professional advancement for contingency faculty, and make a reality multi-year contracts for them. We have also drafted a policy for the review of administrators that closely follows AAUP's recommendations. During my tenure as chair, the committee has exercised strongly and responsibly the role of equal partner that is necessary for shared governance to work.

Delegates to Assembly of State Conferences

Jeffrey A. Butts

Jeffrey A. Butts is a professor of biology at Appalachian State University.  

Recent National AAUP Activities: National Council, 1995-1998, Executive Committee of the National Council, 1996-1998; Vice Chair, Assembly of State Conferences, 1997-1998; Acting Chair, Assembly of State Conferences, 1998-1999; Chair, Assembly of State Conferences, 1999–2002; Past Chair, Assembly of State Conferences, 2002-2005; Secretary-Treasurer, 2002-present; Chair, Audit Committee, 2002-present; Chair, Committee on Association Investments, 2002-present; Chair, Panel on Chapter and Conference Sanctions, 2002-2006; Chair, Task Force on Election Procedures, 2004-2006; Member, Restructuring Task Force, 2004-present; Chair,Committee to Evaluate the General Secretary, 2005-2006; Chair, General Secretary Search Committee, 2007-present.

Ralph Scott

Ralph Scott is a professor in Academic Library Services at East Carolina University.

Member of AAUP since 1970s; State Conference Treasurer and later President;

Secretary, Treasurer and President of ECU Chapter; Delegate to National a number of times; Secretary University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly;  Delegate and alternate delegate to UNC Faculty Assembly

Andrew Saldino

Andrew Saldino is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, N.C. since Fall 2006.  Previously, he was a Lecturer at Clemson University from 2004-2006.  His doctorate is from Syracuse University, and his dissertation was entitled “Just Speech: The Grammar of an Ethics Beyond Essence.”  Recent publications include “Levinas and Wittgenstein in (Ethical) Critique of the Tradition” and “Christianity, Capitalism, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republic” (in The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken: The New Politics of Religion in the United States, Continuum, 2008.) His current research interests involve the philosophical underpinnings of the political economy, as well as the attempts to articulate new frameworks that can address the problems that we face as a human community in the 21st century.           

Cat Warren

Cat Warren is an associate professor in the English Department at North Carolina State University. She is current vice chair of the state conferences of the American Association of University Professors, as well as president of the North Carolina AAUP, although her term ends in April, and she will become immediate past president. A former journalist, she is on leave this academic year, working on a project on the intimate links between neoconservatism, higher education, and the media - looking at the crucial role that media play in framing public perceptions of higher education.

Delegates to National Meeting

Terrell Hayes

Terrell Hayes is an associate professor of sociology and program coordinator at High Point University and holds memberships in several professional organizations.

Chuck Tryon

Chuck Tryon is an assistant professor of English at Fayetteville State University where his research focuses on film and media studies with a special interest in documentary films and political rhetoric.