Join Us

We bring together the Yale faculty, across schools and ranks.

Join us now to advocate for academic freedom, faculty governance, and the public good.

Steps

To join the Yale AAUP chapter, there are three steps:

  1. Join the national American Association of University Professors.

  2. Sign up for our newsletter, where we will keep you posted about upcoming meetings and events. If you are not sure yet about joining the national AAUP, you are still welcome to join the mailing list and connect with us.

  3. Consider getting involved with one of our working groups.

Eligibility

We employ a broad definition of faculty which includes standing faculty, contingent faculty, lecturers and instructors, researchers, postdoctoral fellows, librarians and archivists, and technicians whose work contributes to teaching. If you are an instructional staff member, even if you are already a member of a bargaining unit at Yale (Local 33, 34, or 35), we welcome your membership in the AAUP chapter. In fact, the national AAUP organization asks that instructional staff with access to a bargaining unit first join that unit, then apply for AAUP membership.

Dues

Membership in the national American Association of University Professors involves annual dues, which exist on a sliding scale based on self-reported income. The scale ranges from $6.25/month to $27.58/month, according to income from academic appointments only. Our chapter does not currently have any additional Yale-specific dues.

Why Join?

Consider joining if you are concerned about any of the following:

  • Meaningful protection of free speech

  • Meaningful protection from administrative surveillance and punitive action

  • Transparency and equity around salary and service

  • Faculty decision-making in university governance

  • Future federal restrictions on funding and pedagogy

  • Yale’s relationship to New Haven and Connecticut

  • Yale’s relationship to broader trends in higher education

  • The value of higher education and scholarship for the public good.

These issues may guide our work in the first months and years, but the very existence of this organized body will also allow us to respond more quickly and effectively to other issues as they arise.