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The NC State chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) seeks to promote the welfare of faculty at NC State and to advance the causes of academic freedom, shared governance, due process, current issues of faculty concern, and the other objectives of the AAUP.
The NC State chapter was reactivated during the COVID-19 crisis, and participated in NC State and UNC system-wide discussions and actions to demand that university administration determine policies in accordance with the best scientific and medical knowledge to ensure the safety of our communities. Since then, we have organized events for our chapter and the wider academic community on challenges to academic freedom and shared governance. In 2023-2024, our chapter actively called on the NC State administration to provide a transparent accounting of developments at Poe Hall and to take responsible measures to address the health and environmental safety concerns of affected faculty, staff, and students. In 2025-2026, we successfully worked to resist the cancellation of speakers on campus, contributed to statewide campaigns to defend a robust definition of academic freedom in the UNC Code, and led the campaign for Justice for Jae Edwards following his dismissal based on dishonest attacks by bad-faith external groups.
Our membership includes faculty from multiple disciplines and colleges. We provide confidential meetings to faculty who would like to discuss issues regarding their position that are distressing and upsetting them – a very important resource given the recent diminution of the Faculty Ombuds Office. We are able to assist and support them using resources from our national office as well as from the NC AAUP Foundation.
We are a place for faculty to meet and form colleague relationships with people from across disciplines. We sponsor regular social gatherings (coffee hours, happy hours) each semester for the faculty on this campus.
Should you be in conflict with the University administration or just want support and advice, please email our chapter president.
The NC State Chapter is a member of the North Carolina Conference of the AAUP. Please see their website for vital resources, including information about our legal hotline.
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Take Action Now!
How is Generative AI affecting your work? Take our survey!
How is Generative AI affecting your work? Take our survey!
AAUP NC's Genuine Intelligence Project is a grant-funded AAUP initiative that interrogates the use of generative AI in the university. The project’s goal is to make sure that faculty and student voices are included in decision-making processes related to generative AI on our campuses. We want to begin a conversation about the ways that generative AI may impact labor and academic freedom within the university.
In April, we got started on this work by launching a survey for all students, faculty, and other knowledge workers in the UNC System. Please take our survey and let us know how generative AI is affecting you and your university.
If you’re interested in joining AAUP NC’s generative AI working group, email us.
Sick of deteriorating healthcare coverage? Take the State Health Plan member feedback survey!
Sick of deteriorating healthcare coverage? Take the State Health Plan member feedback survey!
The North Carolina State Health Plan is currently almost one million dollars in the red—in no small part due to the majority in the NC General Assembly's neglect of the wellbeing of public employees and their families. And now, the SHP administrators and their bosses in Raleigh are planning to pass those losses on to us—even as they have refused to give us meaningful raises and our real wages have gone down.
The SHP is currently running a member feedback survey, because "Your responses help us to understand what is most important to you and where we can improve our services." But as one of our colleagues put it, "It's clear they are planning to screw us and the questions are designed to pick the way they are going to screw us." We still encourage you to take the survey, because you can let them know that you won't stand for the further degradation of our living and working conditions. Once you’ve taken the survey, let us know about it here.
Demand the reinstatement of LGBTQ Pride Center Assistant Directory Jae Edwards:
Demand the reinstatement of LGBTQ Pride Center Assistant Directory Jae Edwards:
Context: see this news report
See our open letter to the administration
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