Newsletter | November 2019

The meeting originally scheduled for November 25 did not take place due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Please reserve the fourth Monday of subsequent months for chapter meetings (Jan 27, Feb 24, Mar 23, Apr 27, 3:30-4:30, Tribble A108).

You do not have to be an AAUP member to attend. 

Mission and Goals: 

WFU AAUP embraces the mission of the national American Association of University Professors (AAUP) which advances academic freedom and shared governance; defines fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; promotes the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education,  helps the higher-education community organize to make our goals a reality; and, advocates for higher education’s contribution to the common good.

AAUP Articles on Targeted Harassment of Faculty

Given recent events on campus and the need to develop protocols dealing with Targeted Harassment, we offer links to a series of AAUP articles:

https://onefacultyoneresistance.org/faculty-attack-fighting-targeted-harassment/

https://www.aaup.org/news/targeted-online-harassment-faculty

https://www.aaup.org/article/state-profession-targeted-harassment%E2%80%94faculty-report-back

In addition, our AAUP colleague at Elon University, Megan Squire, professor of computer science and expert on rightwing harassment, especially in North Carolina, has shared the targeted harassment policy that the Elon AAUP chapter got passed and put into the faculty handbook. 

http://elon.smartcatalogiq.com/2019-2020/Faculty-Handbook/Definitions-and-Policy-Statements/Policy-Statements/Faculty-Support-and-Safety-Guidance-for-Targeted-Harassment

Colleagues at Elon continue to refine the document and plan to move the “point person” out of Human Resources and into the Provost’s office.