New AAUP Chapters at High Point University, Pfeiffer University, Greensboro College, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Belmont Abbey College, Lees-McRae College, East Carolina University (revived), Guilford College,UNC-Pembroke, and North Carolina State University... Read More
...According to a nominator, McCaughey has worked to ensure and advance academic freedom at Appalachian and while she was a member of the faculty at Virginia Tech. At Virginia Tech, she challenged the university’s view of computer ownership and made a case for computer privacy as an issue of academic freedom, writing about the whole experience in a published article in Academe, Sept./Oct. 2003, titled “Windows Without Curtains: Computer Privacy and Academic Freedom.”
...In the spring of 2009 the faculty of the University of North Carolina Pembroke re-formed its AAUP chapter after a fifteen-year lapse of membership. The UNCP Chapter is now vital and its membership is growing weekly.
...AAUP has named Cat Warren, an associate professor at North Carolina State University, as editor of its faculty magazine, Academe.
Posted May 31, 2009
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
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
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
Read What Scholars Nationwide Say About the AAUP: Jonathan R. Cole, Columbia University
"We are witnessing today a rising tide of anti-intellectualism and an increasing intolerance of university and college teaching and research that offends external political ideologues. . . . Read More |
