UMN AAUP launches campaign to pressure President Cunningham to respond to federal threats

UMN AAUP launches campaign to pressure President Cunningham to respond to federal threats

The American Association of University Professors chapter at the University of Minnesota organized a postcard writing campaign to urge President Rebecca Cunningham to defend higher education against recent attacks on research funding, academic freedom and international students.  The effort launched on May 5  with the chapter standing in front of Coffman Union to encourage passersby to sign cards imploring Cunningham to join with universities ac…

The degeneration of the AAUP, an organization that’s now all but useless

Like the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the once-venerable American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has by and large abandoned its primary values and mission. In the case of the AAUP, celebrating its 110th anniversary this year, that mission was the protection of academic freedom as well as “to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the co…