About

Barnard AAUP (https://www.aaupbc.org) is a chapter of the national AAUP, American Association of University Professors (https://www.aaup.org/), which was founded in 1915 and is a non-partisan nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Its mission includes defining fundamental professional values and standards for higher education and establishing and advancing the rights pertaining to academic freedom, shared governance and other core principles such as diversity and inclusion and the equitable treatment of faculty regardless of appointment category. 

The AAUP-BC was pivotal in initiating no-confidence votes of President Rosenbury in April 2024 and - after months of resistance, a meeting of several trustees with faculty in August, and the release of student discipline data to faculty in September 2024. The AAUP-BC wrote and publicized statements on the facts of student discipline and declarations condemning the arrest and discipline of students, and letters to the trustees and to Barnard administration. Our chapter helps faculty develop our voice: we host meetings, formal and informal, where faculty converse to inform each other and to develop positions and strategies. Working together, we can effectively speak and be heard.