Liberal Arts Chapters Champion A Different “Compact”

In response to the Trump Administration’s destructive “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” AAUP members from Pennsylvania’s Annapolis Group of Liberal Arts Colleges gathered on Saturday, November 8th for a “Solidarity Summit” in Harrisburg. Dickinson College’s chapter, with financial support from the Pennsylvania Conference of AAUP’s “Strategic Initiative Funds,” organized the event.

Members from six AAUP chapters participated in the workshop and brainstorming sessions: Allegheny College, Bucknell University, Dickinson College, Haverford College, Franklin & Marshall College, and Lafayette College.

The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) 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. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped 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.

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