About the Ca-AAUp
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Welcome to the CA-AAUP website!
The California Conference of the American Association of University Professors (CA-AAUP), represents all four divisions of higher education in the state of California: community colleges, California State Universities, the University of California system, and the private colleges and universities. Together, we are California's higher education professionals: we are adjuncts, lecturers, graduate students, researchers, scientists, tenured and tenure-track faculty. With members at more than 130 universities and colleges across the state, AAUP leads the fight for academic freedom and shared governance, and for the respect we deserve as higher education professionals. 
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A Word from the CA-AAUP
Steering Committee
2020-2022 Steering Committee Members
Steven Filling
California State University, Stanislaus
CA-AAUP
President (2020-2022)
Alex Zukas National University Secretary-Treasurer (2020-2022) Past Vice President for Private Universities (2018-2020) Past President (2016 - 2018) Past Vice President for Private Universities (2014-2016) With the corporatization of public universities and the continued promotion of for-profit educational models, I think the CA-AAUP has an important role to play not only in supporting the faculty at California's universities in their quest to attain and maintain shared governance, academic freedom, and tenure but also in helping to build links between faculty at public universities, private universities, and community colleges. Such links will strengthen faculty voices in the curricular and administrative choices facing all institutions of higher education in California and in the public discourse over the future of higher education in our state. 
Diane Klein
University of La Verne Vice President for Private Universities (2020-2022) I am proud to serve as the Vice-President for Private Colleges and Universities, and to partner with my colleagues in all statuses and all sectors of higher ed in California. Many faculty members today teach in more than one type of institution simultaneously, and all of us have many shared interests and priorities. Whatever our differences, tenure/security of employment, shared governance, and academic freedom matter to us all, and I hope to do all I can to advance them throughout the state. |
Rosalinda Quintanar
San Jose State University Vice President for California State Colleges & Universities (2016-2022) Past President (2014 - 2016) It was a great honor to serve as the President of CA-AAUP. I have the firm conviction that working with the California AAUP is the best way to protect academic freedom and keep higher education as a common good that will benefit our students and our communities. Education is a very powerful tool to bring forth the free expression of ideas and analysis that will promote social justice. As members of the California Conference of the AAUP, we will work together to maintain a high quality learning environment in our Institutions of Higher Education. 
Jesse Drew University of California, Davis Vice President for the University of California (2018 - 2022) I am proud to serve as Vice President for the University of California on the executive board of the California Conference of the American Association of University Professors. As someone whose academic career has spanned the spectrum from high school dropout, to community college student, to state university student, to land-grant university graduate student (University of Texas) to professor at UC Davis, I recognize and respect the enormous benefits our higher education institutions bring to our world. This is my motivation to do my best to fight for our universities. 
Kirti Sawhney Celly
California State University, Dominguez Hills California Faculty Association Delegate to CA-AAUP It is an honor to serve on CA-AAUP’s leadership team. Via my service on the faculty at CSUDH, CSULB, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and University of California, Irvine, all public universities, my smorgasbord of public and private school experiences as a student, and related experiences as a parent, I have developed an appreciation for the integral role of inclusiveness, academic freedom and shared governance in education. I believe that a strong, transparent, and equitable education system that includes state-funded public education, inter-segmental partnerships, and civic engagement, is vital to our effectively serving the educational and development needs of heterogeneous communities. I commit to advocating for democratic universities, faculty voice in decisions impacting our contributions to the world, embracing AAUP values first committed to over a century ago and developed over the decades, and working with integrity to ensure this noble profession is in service of society. |