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 Chapman University 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. 
Katie Graham
Diablo Valley College Vice President for Community Colleges (2020-2022) Higher education in the United States is facing severe political pressures that threatens its funding and freedom of inquiry. Academic professionals need to communicate with one another in these times to secure a future for education that is independent of partisanship and selfish political agendas. AAUP offers professors support to pursue a vision of educational opportunity that is inclusive, diverse, affordable and responsive to the needs of a democratic society. I am pleased to support the AAUP in this mission. |
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. 
Cecile Bendavid
California State University, Northridge California Faculty Association Delegate to CA-AAUP south region I was very honored to be elected to represent the California Faculty Association members from Southern California on the Executive Board of the AAUP California Conference. I have been attending AAUP meetings and Summer Institutes for many years to learn about Academic Freedom, Shared Governance, Tenure, and Social Justice. I feel it is my turn to use all that knowledge to support the students and faculty in California as we follow all the protections and policies of the AAUP in instituting the Free Higher Education for all movement. This is the wave of the future, and it is time for everyone to support it.
Jennifer Eagan
California State University, East Bay California Faculty Association Delegate to CA-AAUP, north region I’m proud to represent the California Faculty Association on CA-AAUP’s leadership team. As an active union member since 1999, I have fought to protect the rights, working conditions, and livelihoods of ALL faculty in the California State University System, including tenure line faculty, full and part-time lecturer faculty, librarians, coaches, and psychological counselors. As a faculty member in a public system, I am passionate about higher education for all as a democratic right. Californian’s college students deserve quality and debt-free, if not completely free, options for higher education that speak to their experiences in the world. This right begins with public funding that is up to that task and supports the faculty who provide it. Our best hope for dismantling racism and other oppressive systems and transforming the world for the better is our students and their creative, transformative energy. Faculty nurture and cultivate that energy. I am proud of what we do. |