SU-AAUP in 2021-2022

• Convened open member meetings to build an issue campaign from the bottom-up.
• Worked with Senate AAUP members and subcommittees to pass a motion calling on the administration to halt changes to TIAA benefits for new faculty.
• Surveyed students to gauge their views on the university’s management of the public health crisis, and shared survey results in a letter to the D.O.
• Formed SU-AAUP Chapter working groups on COVID safety, NTT contract language review, tenure and contingent faculty, and online education.
• Attempted several times to organize an open faculty meeting with Provost Ritter; she has declined every invitation.
• Engaged persistently with the administration in representing faculty concerns regarding public health issues and COVID-related policies. 

SU-AAUP in 2020-2021

• Convened open fora with members to set EC priorities for advocating for faculty teaching and researching during the pandemic.
• Met with administrators to press for faculty and graduate student control over teaching modality.
• Met with administrators to press for data-driven decisions on airflow, bathroom safety, and COVID dashboard structure, timing, and kinds of information
• With substantial and ongoing collaboration with our membership, the EC drafted the AAUP “Alternate Framework” for opening campus in fall 2020. This had three major sections: pedagogy; health/safety; and social justice. We distributed this alternate framework and navigated administrative responses to it.
• Successfully intervened in the administration’s aim to enact and require a midterm evaluation of undergraduate courses by forcing the administration to take the proposal through the Senate committee structure, in this case the Committee on Instruction.
• Successfully intervened in administration’s aim to purchase and require an FIS, and to require a data-summary “box” on the top sheet of every tenure and promotion file.
• The social-racial justice subcommittee formed, composed the third plank of the Alternate Framework, and distributed a letter in support of it to administration. It also published an op-ed in the Daily Orange of Judson Albahm’s murder by police in Jamesville.

SU-AAUP prior to 2020 (the pandemic year):

• Member meeting convened with guests Chancellor, Kent Syverud, and Christopher Newfield who spoke on academic freedom.
• Member meeting convened with guest historian Dr. Nancy MacLean who spoke on the conservative threats to academic freedom.
• Member meeting convened with guest Chancellor Syverud, who presented on the “institutional mapping” of top administration.
• Member meeting convened with guest Prof. Biko Gray, who presented on #NotAgainSU and the need for faculty to align with anti-racist practices and pedagogy, and to take the fight to the BOT