Get Involved

Concerned about increasingly top-down decision-making? The erosion of shared governance? The university’s restructuring and priorities? The rights of community members to demonstrate and protest? The bad-faith attacks on our institution's core values?

Now more than ever we need an effective forum for faculty to organize and advocate for ourselves, for our more vulnerable colleagues, and for a voice at the table.

How to Join AAUP - Harvard Faculty Chapter

There are two essential but easy steps:

1) join the national AAUP and, when prompted, select the Harvard chapter as your local affiliation;

2) sign up for our chapter's contact list for updates, meeting invitations, and opportunities to participate. Just signing up for the mailing list does not signify membership in AAUP-HFC; you have to complete Step 1 as well!

Eligibility

Membership in our chapter is open to lecturers and other contingent faculty, tenured and tenure-track faculty, graduate-student employees and postdoctoral fellows who are primarily teachers or researchers, and librarians, archivists, curators, and technicians who participate substantially in the process of teaching or research. Membership in other campus unions does not preclude joining AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter.

Dues

Annual membership dues for the AAUP national organization are on a sliding scale based on self-reported income. You must sign up and pay dues through AAUP National to be a voting member of AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter.

In addition, AAUP-HFC encourages an annual contribution of $10 to support our organizational infrastructure and programming. Make your contribution here.

Get Involved with Your Chapter

A chapter is only as strong as its membership, and AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter is a member-led organization shaped by your concerns. Active members define our advocacy and action by working together on shared goals. What is most important to you?

AAUP-HFC has three working groups, which track the priorities of AAUP national:

1) Academic freedom

2) Governance

3) Equity and economic security

To join one of our working groups, contact us!