The AAUP
June 21, 2018
We are awaiting a Supreme Court decision that will likely have a profound effect on the way that most unions in the public sector operate, and it will have a profound effect on the AAUP.
But ultimately, the effect that it has on the AAUP is up to us and the members of our profession.
We have seen forty years of neoliberal attacks on public services, including public higher education. Reduced funding has precipitated the privatization of higher education, skyrocketing tuition, and soaring student debt. Simultaneously, US higher education is ever more corporatized. Rising tuition, stagnant real wages, increasing inequality, changing demographics, and growing hostility toward immigrants are all pressuring nonselective public and private institutions.
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