About the Ca-AAUp
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A Word from the CA-AAUP
Steering Committee
2016-2018 Steering Committee Members
President (2016 - 2018) Past Vice President for Private Universities (2014-2016) Alex Zukas National University "It is a great privilege to serve as the President of CA-AAUP. I think the CA-AAUP has an important role to play in supporting the faculty at California’s colleges and universities in their quest to achieve and sustain meaningful shared governance, academic freedom, and tenure and to help build links between faculty at public universities, private colleges and universities, and community colleges. Such links will strengthen faculty voices in the curricular, budgetary, and administrative choices facing all institutions of higher education in California. These links will also strengthen faculty voices in the public discourse over the future of higher education in our state, a discourse that needs the inspiring voice of educators who argue that higher education is a common good that advances and enriches the lives of our students and our communities in innumerable ways. " 
Vice President for California State Colleges & Universities (2016-2018) and Past President (2014 - 2016) Rosalinda Quintanar San Jose State University "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." |
Secretary/Treasurer (2016-2018) Past (Acting) President (2013-2014) Past Vice President for California Community Colleges (2012-2013): Mary Ann Irwin Diablo Valley College "In 2012, I agreed to join the CA-AAUP Steering Committee as Vice President for Community Colleges because I know that California community colleges are the beating heart of California's system of higher education. Community colleges are the open door for everyone who wants to learn and grow and succeed, and they need our support, now more than ever." Vice President for Private Universities
(2016-2018) George Beckwith National University "I first joined AAUP many years ago when I was the NU Faculty Senate Chair and wanted to understand and become more informed about academic freedom and shared governance. I attended the National AAUP conference in Washington, D.C. and was greatly impressed with the people I met there as well as excellent agenda and organization of the program. I joined the CA AAUP as soon as I was aware of its existence since California always sets the trend for the rest of the nation and the great colleges and universities in the state need AAUP’s help and guidance to balance administrators and politicians when they take on positions harmful to higher education. Following up on the CA AAUP connection, I was one of the founding members of the NU AAUP which we started last year. I look forward to working with CA AAUP members." |
Vice President for University of California (2017-2018) Claudio Fogu University of California, Santa Barbara "I am proud to join the CA-AAUP steering committee at this juncture, because the battle for faculty rights, academic freedom, shared governance goes hand in hand with the battle for a fairer higher education system, which is also the battle for the heart and mind of this nation against the forces of bigotry and prejudice." |
