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.

Chapter Service Program: The Missouri Conference stands ready to aid AAUP chapters and members in any way that it can. If you work in Missouri and do not have a local chapter, feel free to contact any conference officer directly, especially Vice-President David Robinson drobinso@truman.edu (tel. 660-785-4321).

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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).

2010 Annual Meeting, Kansas City, on

"Shared Governance & Carry and Conceal Weapon (CCW) Legislation"

The annual meeting of Missouri Conference of AAUP will be Saturday, February 13, in Room 403 of Royall Hall on the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Volker Campus.

The morning session includes a panel discussion on the challenges of achieving and maintaining shared governance, and the afternoon session features Missouri State Representative Chris Kelly (D-Columbia), who will address the issue of carry and conceal weapons (CCW) on Missouri campuses. We start with coffee and bagels at 9:00, and the program begins at 10:00.

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

More on the conference  program (including directions) can be found in the February 2010 issue of Missouri Academe.

Notes on 2009 Annual Meeting, Columbia, on "Grievance Procedures"

The annual meeting of Missouri Conference of AAUP met on Saturday, February 28, in Room S304 of Memorial Union of the University of Missouri in Columbia. Dr. B. Robert (Bob) Kreiser of the Washington D.C. AAUP office talked to us about grievance and appeals procedures. The afternoon featured a panel discussion of problems affecting the University of Missouri (but of interest to us all).

For more on this conference, see the February 2009 and February 2010 issues 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 this conference, 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, 2006-07

Transcript of Richard Schneirov's speech

Transcript of David Robinson's speech

Newsletters of Missouri Conference:

Archive of earlier newsletters (soon)

Position papers, policy studies, etc.:

Websites of AAUP chapters in Missouri:

Missouri, State and others orgs:

National AAUP, and selected links:

National organizations of interest:


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