American Association of University Professors

Missouri Conference of AAUP

The main purposes of the Missouri Conference are to further cooperation among AAUP chapters in Missouri and to promote the principles and policies of the AAUP within the State of Missouri. Those principles and policies include promoting the interests of higher education and scholarly research; protecting academic freedom and tenure; facilitating cooperation among all facets of college and university communities in shared governance; and advancing the standards, ideals, and welfare of the academic profession.

Membership in the Conference, as in the chapters, is open to all Missouri members of the national Association. Representation is through chapter affiliation. The Missouri Conference is a member of the Assembly of State Conferences (ASC) of the national AAUP.

The Conference meets at least once annually (recent annual meetings have been in late winter), and at other times as determined by the officers (Executive Council).

2009 Annual Meeting, Columbia, February 28, focuses on Grievance Procedures

The annual meeting of Missouri Conference of AAUP will be held on Saturday, February 28, in Room S304 of Memorial Union (enter the south entrance) of the University of Missouri in Columbia. Dr. B. Robert (Bob) Kreiser of the Washington D.C. AAUP office will talk to us about grievance and appeals procedures. The afternoon will feature a panel discussion of problems currently affecting the University of Missouri (but of interest to us all). We start with coffee and bagels between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m., when the program begins.

Registration costs $20 (including lunch), and only $5 for contingent faculty. People can simply register upon arrival.

More on the conference and program can be found in the February 2009 issue of Missouri Academe.

Notes on 2008 Annual Meeting, Columbia, on "Organizing and Government Relations"

The 2008 annual meeting Missouri Conference of AAUP was held on Saturday, February 23, on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia. Kathleen Markie, of the MU General Counsel’s Office, addressed the conference on issues of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the new federal court rules on electronic discovery, including email records. Erika Gubrium of the AAUP Office in Berkeley conducted two workshops related to our recent struggle against "intellectual diversity": on basic organizing and communication strategies, and on government relations.

For more on the conference and program, see the February 2008 and November 2008 issues of Missouri Academe.

Notes from 2007 Annual Meeting, St. Louis, on "Contingent Faculty"

The 2007 Annual Meeting of the Missouri Conference was held on 24 February 2007, at Webster University in St. Louis. The meeting addressed many issues of current concern for higher education in Missouri, particularly state budgetary problems and the increased use of contingent faculty (part-time, non-tenure-track, etc.) in both public and private institutions of higher learning. Speakers included State Senator Rita Heard Days (14th District), who serves on the Senate Higher Education Committee and has wide experience in education-related legislation; Richard Schneirov (Indiana State University), a labor historian and member of the AAUP Committee on Contingent Faculty and the Profession; and David Robinson (on our Executive Council). For the first time in recent memory, the MO-Conference Annual Meeting was held jointly with the meeting of another organization, the St. Louis Association for Contingent Faculty (SLACF). Organizers from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Missouri National Education Association (MNEA), the Missouri Association of Faculty Senates (MAFS) also attended.

Contingent Faculty in Missouri Institutions of Higher Education

Transcript of Richard Schneirov's speech

Transcript of David Robinson's speech

More information on Missouri Conference of AAUP

Constitution of the Missouri Conference of AAUP
Conference Officers (Executive Council)

Newsletters of Missouri Conference:

Archive of earlier newsletters (soon)

Minutes of annual meetings:

Position papers, policy studies, etc.:

Websites of AAUP chapters in Missouri:

Updated: 18 February 2008