Organizing Toolkit

Organizing Toolkit

CA-AAUP leader, Jonathan Karpf, leads a workshop
at the 5th annual CA-AAUP conference

AAUP Background Information and Contacts
(All files are downloads for use as templates)

AAUP History and Structure
CA-AAUP Background and FAQ
CA-AAUP Officer and Staff Contacts

Organizing Tools and Templates

CA-AAUP 2008 Meeting Resources

Organizing & Chapter Development: Increasing Member Activism & Developing Chapter Leaders (PDF)
This session began with a "success story" from Martin Goldstein, President of the Chapter at Santa Monica College. After an inspirational case study in chapter building, CA-AAUP leader, Patricia Hill, shared her experiences organizing a unionized faculty chapter at San Jose State that had grown from approximately 325 members to 735 members in several years.

Building & Maintaining Participatory Governance (PDF)
This session, led by CA-AAUP leaders Bill Powell and Janis Crystal Lipzin, explored what characterizes faculty roles in institutional governance in a variety of institutions and shared strategies concerning how to take advantage of opportunities for shared governance when they arise.

Organizing Resources & Templates

Handbook for New and Developing Chapters
Faculty establish a local AAUP chapter to serve as a bulwark against the erosion of faculty governance and the expansion of top-down decision-making. Other faculty organize (or re-organize) a chapter in response to a crisis. The visible presence of an AAUP chapter is an important vehicle for maintaining sound academic policies and professional standards within institutions; this is why faculty at many institutions have maintained AAUP chapters for decades.

This guidebook offers a wealth of resources, strategies, and tips to provide new AAUP chapter leaders with an introduction to the AAUP’s diverse work and the know-how to organize and develop a strong chapter.

Government Relations/Legislative Position Statements

AAUP National Government Relations Committee - Contacts
AAUP Government Relations Committee - Statement on the Spellings Commission Report

Contact David Rubiales (drubiale@yccd.edu), Chair of CA-AAUP's Government Relations Committee, for more information on CA-AAUP's lobbying efforts.