AAUP at Doane

AAUP at Doane The AAUP is a nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquar

The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the highe

r education community organize to make our goals a reality, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country's colleges and universities.

09/13/2024

The Doane AAUP Chapter will be meeting today (Friday, 9/13) at 4 pm at the Crete Country Club. The chapter will provide the first round of drinks!

The Doane Chapter of AAUP will have its first Fall 2023 meeting on Friday, August 25 at 4 P.M. The location is College H...
08/26/2023

The Doane Chapter of AAUP will have its first Fall 2023 meeting on Friday, August 25 at 4 P.M. The location is College Heights Country Club1225 E 4th StCrete, NE 68333 This will be primarily a social event, giving people an opportunity to meet other faculty members and to learn more about both the national AAUP organization and the activities of the Doane chapter. The first drink of the afternoon will be paid for by the chapter!

This post is an invitation to meet Doane AAUP members and learn more about the organization.

It's time for the Doane Chapter of AAUP to begin its work for the 2022-23 academic year. Our first priority is to get mo...
09/23/2022

It's time for the Doane Chapter of AAUP to begin its work for the 2022-23 academic year. Our first priority is to get more faculty involved, since what we do as a chapter depends entirely on the interests and energy of the membership. If you are in Crete today, Friday, September 23, then drop by the Crete Country Club (1225 E 4th St) between 4 PM and 5:30 PM to meet fellow faculty members socially and learn more about AAUP. The first round of drinks will be provided by the chapter!

This is an invitation to meet faculty from Doane interested in the AAUP.

Here is a recent report on faculty salaries. Warning: it's not good news.
07/16/2022

Here is a recent report on faculty salaries. Warning: it's not good news.

The AAUP's 2021–22 Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, released today, finds that real wages for full-time faculty members decreased 5.0 percent after adjusting for inflation, the largest one-year decrease on record since the AAUP began tracking this measure in 1972.

Librarians are faculty members and need academic freedom protections. This article encourages us to support librarians t...
04/20/2022

Librarians are faculty members and need academic freedom protections. This article encourages us to support librarians through Faculty Senate and AAUP Chapter resolutions. This is something we should be considering at Doane.

BY TWO TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY LIBRARIANS The news has been inundated with reports of relentless attacks on intellectual freedom and attacks on libraries. Just last week a blog detailed the many w…

04/11/2022

AAUP releases annual faculty salary data, saying that average faculty pay effectively fell 5 percent this year over last when accounting for runaway inflation.

03/30/2022

We live in an age in which civil discourse and the respectful exchange of diverse ideas has given way to toxic, fact-free ad hominem attacks.

A new issue of the AFCON Sentinel just came out and gives some April News from the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebrask...
03/28/2022

A new issue of the AFCON Sentinel just came out and gives some April News from the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska. Vicki Wood, President-elect of AFCON, reproduces her statement to the Nebraska State Board of Education concerning attacks on teachers and school librarians accusing them of providing obscene materials to children. Her statement emphasized that librarians are professionally trained to provide collections that serve the needs of all students and that determining whether a work is obscene must be based on the entire work and not on a small number of sentences taken out of context....

A brief overview of News from the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska taken from the April issue of the AFCON Sentinel.

03/24/2022

A subcommittee of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure published a statement today that addresses recent partisan efforts in state legislatures to enact bills targeting teaching about Israel and about the history of racism in the United States. The statement urges defeat of such leg...

03/24/2022

NewsBaylor Faculty Senate expresses importance of academic freedom in resolution By Matt Kyle - March 22, 2022 Facebook Twitter The Baylor Faculty Senate passed a resolution in support of academic freedom to teach critical race theory (CRT). Photo courtesy of Baylor Faculty Senate By Matt Kyle | Sta...

03/05/2022

The move comes after the USG board of regents adopted policy changes that make it possible to fire tenured faculty members without a dismissal hearing.

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