New Academe Explores Pandemic Changes to Faculty Organizing

POSTED BY SARAH MINK

The winter issue of Academe explores how the pandemic has changed faculty organizing and engendered new kinds of solidarity. The articles offer snapshots of the recent work of AAUP chapters around the country, provide templates for expanding the faculty’s influence on campus, and draw out lessons that chapters can carry forward into a postpandemic era. They also serve as a reminder that, despite the upheaval of the past two years, the power of AAUP chapters is still built on the same foundations of effective organizing.

Follow the links in the table of contents below or download a PDF of the entire issue at https://www.aaup.org/issue/winter-2022 using your member log-in information.


FEATURES

How to Organize around Issues and Build Faculty Power
By Shawn Fields, Tim Gibson, Rob Kilgore, Bethany L. Letiecq, and Michael Magee

Solidarity in the Apocalypse
By Kathryn Wichelns

Antiracism, Social Justice, and the California Faculty Association
By Charles Toombs

Shared Governance Unionism and the Fight against Austerity in the Age of COVID-19
By Johanna Foster and Marina Vujnovic

Lessons from the Oregon Tech-AAUP Strike
By Ben Bunting, Franny Howes, C.J. Riley, Matt Frye, and Sean St. Clair

How the AAUP Helped to Save Guilford College
By Richie Zweigenhaft

Battling Institutional Debt at HBCUs
By Andrew J. Douglas


BOOK REVIEWS

The Libertarian Playbook
By Jennifer Ruth

How Administrators Navigate Sinking Colleges
By Mary Battenfeld

Openly Vague
By Matthew Cheney

The Academic Department as Ticking Time Bomb
By John Evelev


COLUMNS

From the Editor: Organizing and the Pandemic
By Michael Ferguson

Legal Watch: Professors Challenge Censorship at the University of Florida
By Edward Swidriski

From the President: Racial Equity Comes into Focus
By Irene Mulvey


NOTA BENE

Report on the Evisceration of Tenure in Georgia
By Gregory F. Scholtz

AAUP Condemns South Carolina Antitenure Bill
By Kelly Hand

Censure Removed at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
By Mark Criley

Sanction Imposed on Illinois Wesleyan University
By Gregory F. Scholtz

On Academic Freedom and Transphobia
By Anita Levy

Tools for Fighting Educational Gag Orders
By Stephanie A. Lamore

Fixing Public Service Loan Forgiveness
By Kaitlyn Vitez

AAUP Launches Podcast
By Mariah Quinn

CFA Reaches Tentative Contract Agreement
By Michael Ferguson

Contract Settlement at Monmouth
By Monica Owens

AAUP Chapter and Conference Grants
By Kelly Hand

New AAUP Foundation Grants
By Kelly Hand