AAUP Shared Governance Conference and Workshops

Following the tremendous response to last year’s governance conference, and given the continuing challenges that faculty and administrators around the country are facing as a result of financial pressures,  the AAUP will hold a second governance conference this November. The committee is soliciting papers on all topics relating to governance for presentation at this event.

The conference will take place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, on November 11–13, 2011.  In addition to the presentation of papers accepted by the committee, the AAUP will sponsor a series of training workshops for current and future governance leaders that will be spread out over the three days of the conference.

Register for the conference.

Submit a Proposal

Possible areas of focus:

• Principles, structures, and best practices of shared governance
• Governance and assessment, accountability, or accreditation
• Faculty participation in budgeting, financial exigency, or strategic planning
• Corporatization and challenges to governance
• The role of faculty in hiring, promotion, and tenure
• Faculty governance, pedagogy, and curriculum                  
• Governance and collective bargaining
• The relationship of faculty governance to central administrations & legislatures
• Motivating faculty to participate in shared governance
• The role of contingent faculty
• Departmental governance issues

Proposals of one to two pages should be sent by September 1 to Lenore Beaky, AAUP Committee on College and University Governance, at lbeaky@hotmail.com.  Proposals submitted before August 1 will receive notice of acceptance or rejection prior to the September 1 deadline.

All accepted presenters must register for the conference. 

Training workshops will focus on such issues as:

• Making campus and system-wide faculty governance bodies effective
• Developing the faculty voice in budget and long-range planning processes
• Countering the threat to academic freedom and shared governance posed by the Garcetti decision
•  Fostering effective communication between faculty governance bodies and governing boards
• Evaluating faculty handbooks and incorporating AAUP principles into them
• Providing meaningful input into the selection and evaluation of administrators
• Fostering effective communication between faculty governance bodies and state and local governments
• Including contingent faculty in governance processes
• Developing effective relationships between faculty senates and AAUP chapters
• Recapturing and maintaining faculty control of the curriculum

This will be a unique opportunity to learn about best practices in faculty governance and to discuss governance issues with colleagues from across the country. For more information on the governance training workshops, please contact Larry Gerber, AAUP Committee on College and University Governance, at gerbelg@auburn.edu.