The Vanderbilt Chapter of the AAUP is open to anyone holding a professional position of teacher, researcher, graduate student, or related professional appointment within Vanderbilt University (excluding administrators).
To join our Vanderbilt AAUP Chapter, just fill out our local chapter membership form and also send an email to vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com. We will get in touch about upcoming meetings and events. There are no dues to join the Vanderbilt chapter.
You do not have to be a member of the national AAUP to join the Vanderbilt Chapter of the AAUP. However, membership in the AAUP has many benefits, including AAUP staff support, guidebooks, toolkits, and webinars. Moreover, the AAUP is doing very important work defending academic freedom, advancing faculty governance, supporting our chapter, and more! The AAUP uses a sliding dues scale, so if you can afford to join the national AAUP, please do.
Vanderbilt AAUP does not want membership dues to present a barrier to potential members. To this end, we are working to create a Mutual Aid Fund to enable any non-tenure track instructors, including lecturers and graduate students, to have their costs offset by the general membership. If membership costs are a barrier to you, we welcome you to email VanderbiltAAUP@gmail.com with the total cost of your yearly dues, based on the AAUP’s sliding scale chart . Your identity will only be known by the members of the local chapter committee, who will be responsible for dispensing the funds to you.
For Vanderbilt chapter news and updates or to join the Vanderbilt chapter, please send us your name and email.
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