The NC State AAUP Chapter currently offers the following types of memberships to faculty and graduate students:
NOTE: While our Chapter Affiliate program has been very successful, we now need to grow national membership in North Carolina. Increased membership brings increased resources from national AAUP, and with that support NC AAUP is now on a rapid upward trajectory. Recent victories include securing tenure for 33 faculty members at UNC Chapel Hill, and helping our own chapter fend off a misguided administration attack on colleagues’ academic freedom. Join at whatever income band you are comfortable with – as low as $7 a month.
National Membership
(Note: Individuals can join the national AAUP at the income level they are most comfortable with -- as little as $7 per month)
Affiliate Membership (optional for national members, but appreciated)
Tenure track faculty: Yearly chapter dues $25 - pay here
Professional Track faculty: Yearly chapter dues $20 - pay here
Retired faculty: Yearly chapter dues $15 - pay here
Graduate students: Yearly chapter dues $15 - pay here
All members are eligible to participate in NC State Chapter meetings and sponsored events. Members who pay national AAUP dues have full voting rights and are eligible to serve as chapter officers. Affiliate Members may vote on local (NCSU-specific) matters and to elect chapter officers. Your local chapter dues will help us to organize events, bring in outside speakers, build our community, and work to defend and enhance academic freedom and shared governance at NC State University.
Both locally and nationally AAUP provides a voice for faculty on important issues impacting higher education. AAUP is the only organization we have advocating for all faculty, including graduate students. In these uncertain times we need AAUP more than ever because of its long-held commitment to academic freedom, due process, and shared governance.
AAUP serves as an insurance policy providing support, resources, and guidance to members when an individual faculty member or graduate student encounters employment-related trouble.
AAUP attracts committed faculty from many disciplines and is seeking to make positive changes on campus, in academia, and in the world.
Consider joining AAUP, particularly now that our new membership categories make it more affordable.
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, post‐doctoral 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.
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, the NC Conference of the AAUP, 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. Starting in Spring 2025, we are sponsoring regular social gatherings each semester for the faculty on this campus.