The Whitman College AAUP Chapter is an advocacy chapter that promotes the discussion of and, where appropriate, takes action on matters relevant to the AAUP’s mission. The AAUP’s mission 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” (www.aaup.org).

As of June, 2022, the president of the chapter is Lisa Uddin (Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture Studies, and Paul Garett Fellow), the vice president is Jack Jackson (Associate Professor of Politics), and the Secretary-Treasurer is Pavel Blagov (Associate Professor of Psychology). New AAUP members who wish to join the chapter’s e-mail distribution list and gain access to its site(s) should contact the Secretary-Treasurer at blagovp@whitman.edu.

Joining the AAUP is easy (go to www.aaup.org/membership/join), and there is a sliding dues scale based on academic income. The AAUP website delineates benefits of membership over and above participation in the local chapter’s activities (see https://www.aaup.org/membership/benefits).