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Established
in 1915 by the philosophers Arthur O. Lovejoy and John Dewey, the
AAUP is the leading champion of academic freedom for college and
university faculty in the United States. The AAUP defends the principles
of academic freedom, due process, and shared governance, defines
fundamental professional values and standards, and ensures that
higher education contributes to the common good. Its 1940 Statement
of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, defending the “free
search for truth and its free exposition” at institutes of
higher education, is widely accepted among the academic community.
Although the University of Georgia has had an active AAUP chapter during various
stages of its history, in recent years the chapter has been dormant. Its reactivation
in the spring of 2005 offers UGA faculty and graduate students a means to unite
and take part in higher education advocacy efforts.
The AAUP has taken on a variety of issues of interest to higher education:
post-tenure review, women in the academic profession, part-time and non-tenure-track
faculty, diversity, intellectual property, family and work, discrimination,
and distance education, to name just a few. In addition, each year the AAUP
advises and assists more than a thousand individual faculty. The work of our
UGA chapter will depend on the interests and involvement of our members.
Please join the AAUP, become involved in our work, and tell us what role you’d
like the AAUP to play at the University of Georgia.
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