We are facing unprecedented challenges to academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance in Texas and beyond. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is on the front lines advocating for current and future faculty with university administrations, boards of regents, state legislatures, and the federal government.

We invite tenure-track, tenured and professional faculty as well as research staff, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students to join AAUP. Since its founding in 1915, AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain education quality and academic freedom in this country’s colleges and universities. AAUP is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (1.7M members including 148,000 faculty members).

Link to join AAUP or renew your AAUP membership.

Here are specific benefits to you as an AAUP member:

• Connect with AAUP members in the UT Austin AAUP Chapter which holds meetings every semester on Zoom
• Connect with AAUP members at the Texas AAUP Conference which holds meetings every semester in person and on Zoom
• Advocate with the Texas AAUP Conference and other faculty organizations for academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance in the State Legislature
• Be a voting member of and stand for officer elections in the UT Austin AAUP Chapter and Texas AAUP Conference
• Access AAUP member benefits including biennial summer institutes, webinars, and subscription to Academe magazine on academic freedom
• Access AFT member benefits including financial & legal services, insurance, and mortgage & home services

Membership funds will allow AAUP national to support

• members facing tenure denial, termination, or disciplinary action
• committees formulating educational, research and other policies

In November 2021, AAUP successfully intervened on behalf of Huriya Jabbar and other UT Austin faculty members on the GoKAR! Project after UT Austin administration had paused the project. (See the AAUP Academe article and Texas Tribune story.)