The Purposes of Sinclair´s AAUP Chapter are to:
- Facilitate meaningful shared governance at SCC.
- Ensure that faculty have primary authority in curriculum design, delivery, and offerings.
- Ensure the highest quality of instruction by promoting the hiring of full-time tenure-track faculty.
- Advocate fair compensation for faculty.
- Ensure due process in grievance and disciplinary procedures.
- Promote and protect academic freedom.
SCCAAUP Chapter Structure
- Organizing Committee - Susan Harris (Chair)
- Communications Committee - Ben McKeever (Chair)
- Events Committee - Jeff Patzer (Chair)
"It is, then, a prerequisite to a realization of the proper measure of academic freedom in American institutions of learning, that all boards of trustees should understand--as many already do--the full implications of the distinction between private proprietorship and a public trust." From the AAUP's 1915 "Declaration of Principles"
