Billionaire-funded groups seek to control the voices of faculty, students, and staff. The AAUP-CSU operates entirely on donations and dues contributed by LOCAL members and supporters. We NEED support (both volunteer time and financial contributions) today to fight and protect our universities.
Make a one time or sustaining monthly donation of any amount. AAUP-CSU is 100% run and funded by LOCAL volunteers and donors, and we need all the support we can raise so that we can continue the fight to protect academic freedom and student, faculty and staff rights at Colorado State University.
Sign up for the AAUP-CSU Mailing List and Newsletter
We promise that we won’t send a lot of emails – usually just 2 or 3 a month to announce specific events or actions when we need the most help to stand up to threats to our universities.
After signing up, please post to your preferred social media and encourage your colleagues and friends to join as well.
Why Should You Support and Join AAUP-CSU?
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP, founded in 1915) is one of the nation’s most powerful and visible advocacy and collective bargaining units for higher education. The AAUP and their affiliate the American Federation of Teachers (AFT-CIO) represent more higher education workers than any other union. Our mission is to support all academic professionals and to:
- Preserve academic freedom and the way these basic freedoms protect our teaching and research activities.
- Fight back to prevent cuts to education and science research that may diminish higher education in the United States.
- Advocate for fair working conditions, rights, protections, salaries and benefits for all university employees.
- Fight back against the abduction, torture, and deportation of our international students without justification.
- Ensure that students can continue to obtain high quality and affordable educations and advancement opportunities.
Expand here to read the AAUP Mission.
The mission of the AAUP is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country’s colleges and universities.
By joining AAUP, you will support several active lawsuits to protect university members, including:
- to resist federal threats to coerce university administrations,
- to block mass termination of science grants,
- to reverse unconstitutional executive DEI orders,
- and to stop politically motivated deportations.
Read more about these and many more ongoing AAUP efforts here.
Join AAUP-CSU
All AAUP-CSU members pay local dues to support local activities, including purchasing of campaign materials (advocacy postcards, posters/signs), local meeting expenses (venue rental, refreshments), communications (website hosting and maintenance), member travel (conferences and workshops), events (guest speakers, expert/informational panels). Read more about recent events and activities on our AAUP-CSU home page.
Donate to Support AAUP-CSU
AAUP-CSU needs all the support it can get to defend academic freedom for all students, faculty and staff at Colorado State University and throughout Colorado. All supporters will included in communications of local AAUP-CSU sponsored events and actions, receive the monthly AAUP-CSU newsletter, and are eligible to attend most AAUP-CSU meetings and social events. Joining as a non-member supporter is an ideal means to establish collaborative ties between AAUP-CSU and other Northern Colorado networks and organizations.
Join the AAUP National
Join today as a full member of AAUP, and help us to defend ourselves against these unlawful attacks on higher education, and together we will ensure that all CSU students, staff, and faculty may continue to be treated with inclusion, integrity, respect, and social justice as they pursue excellence in academics and research.
In addition, there are many practical benefits available to AAUP and AFT members and their dependents, including publication discounts, insurance programs, financial incentives, and access to unique educational programs and scholarship programs (read more about AAUP and AFT benefits here.)
There has never been a better time than today to join your faculty, academic professional, and graduate student colleagues to promote and protect your profession and help to shape the future of our education community. Go to our national organization’s website, https://aaup.org, and click on “Membership.”
