Updated Sept. 28, 2023.

Congratulations to our New and Continuing Officers!

AAUP members affiliated with UT Austin elected a President, Secretary, and At-Large Member #1, each for a 2023-2025 term, and a Treasurer to fill out the remainder of a 2022-2024 term. In addition, the President for 2022-2023 now becomes Past President. The newly elected officers began their terms on Sep. 27, 2023, at 5pm.

President	2023-2025 term	Polly Strong
Vice President	2022-2024 term	Andrea Gore
Secretary	2023-2025 term	Lauren Gutterman
Treasurer	2022-2024 term (last year of term)	Steven Seegel
At-Large Member #1	2023-2025 term	Julia Mickenberg
At-Large Member #2	2022-2024 term	Karma Chavez
Past President		Brian Evans

Polly Strong can be reached a strongpolly@gmail.com.

We want to express our most sincere gratitude to Jen Ebbeler (Treasurer 2022-2023) and Bill Fagelson (Secretary 2022-2023). They were incredibly active during our inaugural year as an officially recognized AAUP chapter in both on-campus and off-campus matters. We will miss Bill and Jen on the Executive Team and look forward to continue working together on AAUP initiatives.

Process for UT Austin AAUP Officer Elections

The UT Austin AAUP Chapter By-Laws specify six officer positions elected for staggered two-year terms plus a seventh officer (Past President).

The UT Austin AAUP Chapter held its first officer elections in November 2022 and the following officers ran unopposed and were unanimously elected.  Three of the positions were for one-year terms and three were for two-year terms

President	2022-2023 term	Brian Evans
Vice President	2022-2024 term	Andrea Gore
Secretary	2022-2023 term	Bill Fagelson
Treasurer	2022-2024 term	Jen Ebbeler
At-Large Member #1	2022-2023 term	Polly Strong
At-Large Member #2	2022-2024 term	Karma Chavez

Brian Evans is not seeking re-election due to the time commitment to becoming the Interim President for the Texas AAUP Conference on July 1, 2023.  He will become the Past President for the UT Austin AAUP Chapter.

Jen Ebbeler has decided not to continue for the second year of the two-year term as Treasurer.

Polly Strong will not be seeking re-election as At-Large Member #1 so as to run for President.

Here are the positions up for election:

President	2023-2025 term
Secretary	2023-2025 term
Treasurer	remainder of 2022-2024 term
At-Large Member #1	2023-2025 term

We will conduct elections on Qualtrics or equivalent platform in two steps

• Nominations (one week) – nominee must agree to stand for election and serve if elected
• Elections (one week)

Based on nominations received for the four officer positions, each of the four positions has one and only one nominee:

• President – Polly Strong – 2023-2025 term
• Secretary – Lauren Gutterman – 2023-2025 term
• Treasurer – Steven Seegel – remainder of 2022-2024 term
• At-Large Member #1 – Julia Mickenberg – 2023-2025 term

The names of the above candidates will be circulated on a no-protest basis, and no protests were received.

Per UT Austin AAUP Chapter By-Laws, only AAUP members can nominate AAUP members, only AAUP members can stand for elections, and only AAUP members can vote in elections