About Us
The University of North Carolina Charlotte Chapter of the American Association of University Professors is an advocacy organization that promotes the welfare and safety of our community, academic freedom, meaningful shared governance, and other issues of concern to higher education workers. We work from the premise that universities provide a common good that works best when faculty, staff, and students are free to conduct research and teach without interference.
Our local chapter embraces the mission of the American Association of University Professors, (AAUP), and works closely with North Carolina Conference of the AAUP and other NC campus chapters. Membership is open to all teaching and research faculty, graduate students, post-docs, librarians, and academic staff. It is confidential and gives you access to national and state resources, including a legal hotline.
Our Mission
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good.
UNC Charlotte AAUP Initiatives
Living Wage:
To promote the economic security and rights of faculty, graduate students, staff, and hourly workers, all of whom are essential to the university
Shared Governance:
To preserve higher education’s core mission and values through genuine shared governance
Academic Freedom:
To protect academic freedom for the purpose of ensuring the university’s mission to enhance the common good
Resisting Corporatization:
To support educators, not corporate leaders, in guiding the UNC system and its campuses