Interesting Documents from the Last General Meeting

Janelle Taylor, president of AAUP-UW in her conversation with the membership on February 16th shared several documents with us that we think are of general interest. With her permission, they are linked here:

• AAUP-UW Statement of Principles to Guide Budgetary Decisions
  This is a brief statement of the principles that UW chapter of the AAUP propose as a basis for budgetary decisions at their institution.
  
• Report on Meeting on How Unionization Affected Faculty at Rutgers and Western Washington held at UW on May 12, 2010
  Representatives of the faculty unions at Rutgers and WWU answered questions of the UW-AAUP about the effects of unionization of their faculties on the universities and the faculty members.
  
• WWU Faculty Contract Highlights (May 2008)
  This is a summary of the results of WWU's round of collective bargainging--its first faculty contract.
  
• The Comprehensive Organizing Campaign
  This is a description of some aspects of the program of organizing new campuses worked out by the American Federation of Teachers.