Annual Conference

Announcing the 2025 Meeting of the North Carolina Conference of the AAUP

Theme: Winning the Fight for Higher Education in NC

Saturday, April 5, 2025, 9:30-4:00

NEW LOCATION Genome Sciences Building 010, UNC Chapel Hill

RSVP to https://forms.gle/PDAhMTU6fu7TqhZX8 by Friday, March 28. Or use the QR code below.

Right now UNC system schools face an ongoing crisis exacerbated by the UNC BOG policy on DEI course requirements, as seen in the NC AAUP state conference's statement of February 11. We also saw just last summer a new curricular requirement imposed on all UNC students by politically appointed Board members. The NIH research overhead funding crisis, meanwhile, threatens to destroy the financial basis of higher education, paving the way for widespread job losses (of faculty, staff, grad workers, and positions well beyond the gates of the universities), increased workloads and new constraints for those who do manage to keep their jobs, and greatly diminished education at increased prices for students who are financially able to continue their studies. As administrators at public and private institutions fold their arms and look away, nobody is safe from these deadly attacks. Our only option is to face them and push back together. 

On Saturday, April 5, 2025, the annual meeting of the North Carolina Conference of the AAUP will convene to focus on ways that faculty, graduate workers, and allies can build common ground. We must defend our security and that of our students and communities while also raising awareness of universities and higher education as an essential public good. We will hear from and work with organizers and advocates from across the state, and together plan activities for the April 17 National Day of Action for Higher Education and beyond.

The NC AAUP can provide a limited number of hotel rooms for people attending from beyond the Triangle/Triad. Please ask us about this.

To download flyers, visit https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qijOKe1LUpmz5Ke8uVQtSnGkUZs-sA1A?usp=sharing 

Contact: jaysmith711@gmail.com or dambaras@gmail.com 

Don’t just mourn, organize!