All members are welcome to join a planning meeting on Tuesday, May 12. We will be discussing elections and priorities for next year. Your ideas and efforts are most welcome. We are also recruiting more members for the Executive Committee. Email aaupuiowa@gmail.com for the meeting address and/or additional information.

Join us on the fourth Tuesday of every month to kick back with friendly folks from across campus. No agenda - just fellowship & good vibes with other faculty. All welcome. Upcoming events - February 24, March 24, April 22, 5 - 7 pm, Green House, 505 E Washington St., Iowa City.

The Executive Committee is in the midst of Spring planning. We will be in touch shortly with an update about our next general membership meeting, which will happen before the end of the term. In the interim, please come to our next Happy Hour on Tuesday, April 28.

Join us on the fourth Tuesday of every month to kick back with friendly folks from across campus. No agenda - just fellowship & good vibes with other faculty. All welcome. Upcoming events - February 24, March 24, April 22, 5 - 7 pm, Green House, 505 E Washington St., Iowa City.

The Iowa Senate is considering three bills that would advance a radical agenda to reshape Iowa’s public universities along ideological lines. These bills - taken almost verbatim from national special interest groups - put partisan politics over student learning, intellectual freedom or institutional health.

Contact state senators and spread the word to everyone - alumni, faculty, parents, students and taxpayers - who shares an interest in protecting robust and independent higher education in Iowa.

Please join us on Tuesday, March 10 from 5:30-6:30 at the Coralville Public Library to learn, plan and mobilize. Spread the word to colleagues across campus — all are welcome and every person counts.

On Wednesday, show up to tell the Board of Regents we need them defend higher education from partisan attacks. 4 pm, Leavitt Center for University Advancement, Iowa City.

“Alumni of the University of Iowa are raising concerns over the future of the university’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies program, saying they’ve learned it could be eliminated as part of a broader academic review.

TV9 first learned of the potential change from a recent Ph.D. graduate who said more than 120 alumni have signed an open letter urging university leaders and the Iowa Board of Regents to reconsider what they describe as the pending elimination of the major.”

Join us on the fourth Tuesday of every month to kick back with friendly folks from across campus. No agenda - just fellowship & good vibes with other faculty. All welcome. Upcoming events - February 24, March 24, April 22, 5 - 7 pm, Green House, 505 E Washington St., Iowa City.

INSIDER HIGHER ED: A ‘Barrage of Bills’ Would Overhaul Higher Ed in Iowa—If They Actually Pass

The Capitol Dispatch reported that the Iowa Higher Education Coalition - comprised of the AAUP chapters from all three of Iowa’s public universities - rejected the Trump Administration’s Compact for Education Excellence.

Last fall, the Executive Committee of the University of Iowa chapter of The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) became concerned, and then alarmed, about the administration’s proposed changes to the Manual of Policy and Procedure (MOPP) of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS).

Today, the faculty and graduate students who make up the United Faculty of Florida (UFF) affirm our intention to stand in defense of all members of the higher education community in the face of extremist, authoritarian attacks from Florida’s executive and legislative branches. Florida’s students, families and communities deserve better than the lies and misinformation flowing unstemmed out of Tallahassee.