Membership

• Want to Join?  Click on the form below, fill it out online, and click "Submit". 

  Please note that we will confirm receipt of your membership form.  If you submit it electronically, we will send a reply email.  We process all memberships around the 15th of each month, and you will receive a confirming letter and a membership card around that time.  If you don't receive an email  confirmation, there is a strong possibility that we did not receive your form.  If you are not sure that we received it, please give us a call at 556-6861 or send us an email at aaupuc1@ucmail.uc.edu. 

  Active Membership Form - can be submitted online if you click "submit".  If you have any difficulties submitting online, please print your form and fax it to us at 556-2048. 

  Make sure you print a copy for your own records. 

   

• How much do AAUP UC dues cost? 

• Membership Benefits

At the University of Cincinnati, we have one of the oldest and strongest AAUP chapters in the United States.

 The UC Chapter of the AAUP was organized during WWII. Then and now, the AAUP is the only professional organization whose primary purpose is to enhance the academy by preserving shared governance, faculty and student rights, legal advocacy, and collective bargaining.

In 1974, the UC Chapter decided to become a bargaining unit chapter, that is, a union.  In that first round of contract negotiations, members together:

• secured contractually guaranteed health benefits and fair salaries
• fought an attempt to abolish sabbaticals
• secured shared governance through the Faculty Senate
• established faculty governance over reappointment, promotion, and tenure criteria
• established an innovative new grievance system that provides a fair process and Grievance Panel hearing for faculty members

Our task today is the same as it was at our founding: to make ourselves relevant to our society, to engage in the daily experiences of students and faculty at UC, and to cultivate activism and advocacy across generational, cultural, and disciplinary boundaries. Those boundaries should not and will not divide us.

Since those early days, the UC Chapter has worked to preserve those gains, as well as addressing the day-to-day battles that appear.   Recently, the Chapter has worked to  help stave off a legislative attack on the right to bargain for reasonable health insurance costs and, here on campus, to ensure a real faculty voice in collegiate restructuring.  Looking forward, the Chapter will face the challenge of bargaining a good contract for UC faculty -- one that moves the whole University forward in important ways -- in the midst of the worst recession in 70 years. 

Your membership will make the Chapter stronger as it faces this latest challenge.  Join your colleagues who are already dues-paying AAUP UC members. Membership makes a difference!