Get Involved

Concerned about increasingly top-down decision-making? The erosion of shared faculty 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, for our students, and for a voice at the table.

How to Join AAUP - Harvard Faculty Chapter

Faculty of all ranks can join the national organization and select affiliation with the Harvard chapter; you should then sign up for our contact list right away to let us know you have joined and to stay updated. To get involved: 1) join AAUP now! and 2) sign up for our chapter's contact list for updates, meeting invitations, and opportunities to participate.

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. In addition, AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter charges annual dues of $30 to support our organizational infrastructure and programming.

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 the chapter’s advocacy and action by working together on shared goals. What is most important to you? As our organization builds, we look forward to constituting task forces on specific issues: academic freedom, labor solidarity, non-tenure-track faculty issues, and other member priorities. To convene or join a task force, contact us!