BY THE AAUP
We are excited to announce the publication today of the AAUP’s Policy Documents and Reports, known as the Redbook. It’s an indispensable resource for promoting sound academic practices on your campus. Bringing together foundational statements on academic freedom, shared governance, and other essential topics with new and revised documents—many with statistical or legal updates—the twelfth edition provides authoritative language for faculty members working to codify AAUP principles in faculty handbooks and collective bargaining contracts.
Hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions of the Redbook are available for purchase through the Johns Hopkins University website, with a special discount for members.
You can find the table of contents and more information here.
The majority of policies in our faculty handbook come from the Redbook. Over the years, our AAUP chapter has effectively advocated for incorporating its recommended institutional regulations on dismissals, terminations, and financial exigency. Two victories stand out. As the chair of the faculty steering committee some years back, I read from the Redbook on the faculty senate floor to argue successfully for extending the benefit of sabbaticals to our full-time, non-tenure-track faculty. This year, as chapter president, I relied on the Redbook and the recommended regulations to argue successfully for changing the nonrenewal policies and procedures for those same faculty members. Our nontenured colleagues with more than seven years of service are now entitled to the same procedural protections as tenured faculty. Without the Redbook, I’m just a faculty member with some radical ideas for strengthening academic freedom and due process on our campus. But with the Redbook, I’m armed with the expertise and knowledge of the leading professional organization fighting for faculty rights, due process, and academic freedom. Who can argue with that?
—AFSHAN JAFAR, President, Connecticut College AAUP chapter
