CC AAUP: Our Mission is You

Founded in 1915, AAUP is a national nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals working to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country’s colleges and universities. AAUP defines fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, advances the rights of academics, particularly as those rights pertain to academic freedom and shared governance, and promotes the interests of higher education teaching and research. 

The Colorado College Chapter of AAUP works in the CC community and in collaboration with the Colorado Conference of AAUP chapters to advance academic freedom and shared governance locally while promoting economic security for faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education.

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