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American Association of University Professors
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States that was founded in 1915 in New York City and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. AAUP membership includes over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations.
Since June 2022, the AAUP has been affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.
The AAUP's stated mission is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915 by Arthur O. Lovejoy and John Dewey, the AAUP has helped shape American higher education by developing standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in the country's colleges and universities.
In the 1890s and early 1900s, there were a number of attempts to dismiss college faculty members from their academic posts, including a failed attempt to dismiss Richard Ely at the University of Wisconsin in 1894. Edward Bemis was dismissed from a post at the University of Chicago in 1895 and George D. Herron from one at Grinnell College in 1899.
Perhaps most prominent of these incidents was the 1900 dismissal of eugenicist, economics professor, and sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross from Stanford University. Ross's work criticizing the employment of Chinese laborers by the Southern Pacific Railroad, run by Stanford's founder Leland Stanford, led Leland's widow, Jane Stanford, to intervene and, over the president's and faculty's objections, succeed in getting Ross dismissed. A number of faculty colleagues resigned in protest, including Arthur O. Lovejoy.
In January 1915, the Association of University Professors was formed after a series of meetings held at the Chemists' Club in New York City. John Dewey served as president of the organization, with Lovejoy, who had by then moved on to Johns Hopkins, serving as secretary.
In February 1915, the dismissals of two professors and two instructors at the University of Utah by President Joseph T. Kingsbury—and the subsequent resignations of 14 faculty members in protest—launched the AAUP's first institutional academic freedom inquest. An earlier 1911 controversy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, had involved some of the same professors.
In December 1915, the inaugural volume of the Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors was published, including the document now known as the 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure—the AAUP's foundational statement on the rights and corresponding obligations of members of the academic profession.
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American Association of University Professors
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States that was founded in 1915 in New York City and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. AAUP membership includes over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations.
Since June 2022, the AAUP has been affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.
The AAUP's stated mission is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915 by Arthur O. Lovejoy and John Dewey, the AAUP has helped shape American higher education by developing standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in the country's colleges and universities.
In the 1890s and early 1900s, there were a number of attempts to dismiss college faculty members from their academic posts, including a failed attempt to dismiss Richard Ely at the University of Wisconsin in 1894. Edward Bemis was dismissed from a post at the University of Chicago in 1895 and George D. Herron from one at Grinnell College in 1899.
Perhaps most prominent of these incidents was the 1900 dismissal of eugenicist, economics professor, and sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross from Stanford University. Ross's work criticizing the employment of Chinese laborers by the Southern Pacific Railroad, run by Stanford's founder Leland Stanford, led Leland's widow, Jane Stanford, to intervene and, over the president's and faculty's objections, succeed in getting Ross dismissed. A number of faculty colleagues resigned in protest, including Arthur O. Lovejoy.
In January 1915, the Association of University Professors was formed after a series of meetings held at the Chemists' Club in New York City. John Dewey served as president of the organization, with Lovejoy, who had by then moved on to Johns Hopkins, serving as secretary.
In February 1915, the dismissals of two professors and two instructors at the University of Utah by President Joseph T. Kingsbury—and the subsequent resignations of 14 faculty members in protest—launched the AAUP's first institutional academic freedom inquest. An earlier 1911 controversy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, had involved some of the same professors.
In December 1915, the inaugural volume of the Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors was published, including the document now known as the 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure—the AAUP's foundational statement on the rights and corresponding obligations of members of the academic profession.
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