About AAUP Bucknell
We are the Bucknell University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (Bucknell AAUP), a member-driven organization that advocates for the interests of all Bucknell employees and for a just university that meets its obligations to our community, region, and world.
We welcome participants from all departments and divisions across the University, even as we recognize the traditional focus of AAUP on the rights of faculty broadly understood as those employed primarily in research and teaching. We believe that solidarity among employees across the university is the best way to amass the power needed to meaningfully address the challenges faced by particular classes of employees. Building a broad coalition also allows those employees who enjoy more job security to leverage that it for the benefit of those who feel less secure.
We are a democratic, member-led organization and our advocacy is defined by the priorities set by members at chapter meetings open to all participants. In addition to the elected members of the Executive Committee, the work of the chapter is carried out by colleagues who choose to volunteer their time in one of our standing committees. Standing committees define and implement strategy for achieving our chapter priorities in consultation with the chapter and the executive committee. If you are an AAUP Bucknell participant and you would like to join a standing committee, please reach out to the Executive Committee.
Even as we draw our members from Bucknell and seek to make the institution a better workplace for all, AAUP Bucknell is not affiliated with the university. Likewise, even as we use make use of the university’s online and physical infrastructures within our rights under the National Labor Relations Act, sensitive documents are stored off of Bucknell servers.
We are a member of AAUP Advocacy Chapter Local 6741 of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.
About AAUP National
Founded in 1915, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has advocated for academic freedom and shared governance that prioritizes the voice of faculty for over a century. It defines equitable policies of academic employment and advances professional ethics and teaching standards that foster a just society. AAUP centers meaningful faculty and staff participation in decision-making processes and aims to build worker solidarity across campuses in the United States. It represents academic employees of universities and colleges in labor disputes, contributes research and policy on crucial issues in higher education, and fights for the economic security of the profession through direct advocacy and the creation of chapters
Executive Committee
Standing Committees
Pay Equity & Work Sharing
Workplace Democracy
Membership