AAUP - Harvard Faculty Chapter

Harvard's chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was established in June 2024. We are a membership organization that advocates for meaningful and democratic shared university governance, for academic freedom, and for the economic security of those who perform the institution's core instructional work. Membership is open to all faculty across Harvard's many departments and schools, using the broadest definition of faculty: all those employed primarily in research and/or teaching at a professional level regardless of title, including standing faculty, contingent faculty, graduate researchers and instructors, postdocs, and librarians, archivists, curators, and technicians whose work involves or substantially contributes to research or teaching.  

The AAUP, a nonprofit membership association of faculty and academic professionals founded in 1915, has members and chapters based at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Its 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, postdoctoral 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. Since its founding, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, advancing the rights of academics, and promoting the interests of higher education teaching and research. In 2022, the AAUP voted to formally affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, becoming the largest organization of academic workers in the country; AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter is a member of AAUP Advocacy Chapter Local 6741 of the AFT.