Membership

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• Membership Benefits

At the University of Cincinnati, we have one of the oldest and strongest AAUP chapters in the United States.

 The UC Chapter of the AAUP was organized during WWII. Then and now, the AAUP is the only professional organization whose primary purpose is to enhance the academy by preserving shared governance, faculty and student rights, legal advocacy, and collective bargaining.

In 1974, the UC Chapter decided to become a bargaining unit chapter . that is, a union. In that first round of contract negotiations, members together:

• secured contractually guaranteed health benefits and fair salaries
• fought an attempt to abolish sabbaticals
• secured shared governance through the Faculty Senate
• established faculty governance over college reappointment, promotion, and tenure criteria
• created a democratically elected University Faculty Grievance Committee

Since those early days, the UC Chapter has worked to preserve those gains, as well as addressing the day-to-day battles that appear, such as the Chapter's recent success in stopping attempts to skim money from the Alternative Retirement Program and organizing responses to important legislation pending in Columbus that will affect all higher education employees.

Our task today is the same as it was at our founding: to make ourselves relevant to our society, to engage in the daily experiences of students and faculty at UC, and to cultivate activism and advocacy across generational, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. Those boundaries should not and will not divide us.

Join your colleagues who are already dues-paying AAUP UC members. Membership makes a difference!