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Join Your AAUP

Flier - Join the AAUP and fight for the future of higher ed. The AAUP is an association and union of faculty, graduate students, and other academic professionals with chapters at colleges and universities throughout the country. The AAUP needs you to join the fight to Push back against federal cuts to lifesaving research. Defened international scholars and grad students. Advance academic freedom and shared governance. Promote economic security for all academic workers. Join the AAUP today. aaup.prg/join

Your AAUP is an association of faculty, graduate students, and other academic professionals with chapters at colleges and universities throughout the country and in South Carolina. AAUP is member-driven and member-led. It's a big tent (!) but what we have in common is a commitment to fighting for each other and the future of higher ed.

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Your AAUP needs you to join in the fight because honestly, no one can advocate for us like us. 

Benefits 

 

When you join AAUP, you are entitled to member benefits through AAUP and member benefits through AFT. They are pretty nice!

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How Membership Works

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In South Carolina, we have chapters at 13 South Carolina institutions (see the list below), and you can join your AAUP whether or not your institution has an AAUP chapter yet (here's how to start a chapter, or contact us). All of us AAUP members in South Carolina make up the South Carolina Conference of the AAUP, or AAUP-SC.

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Our chapters in South Carolina are known in the AAUP as advocacy chapters (meaning, we don't have collective bargaining agreements in place). Members of the AAUP in South Carolina join the national organization and pay annual dues; the amount is based on your academic income. That money goes to support AAUP legal efforts, staff, reports, activities, and programs to protect higher ed. You can join at the national organization's membership page, except for those joining the Furman University Chapter, where payroll deduction is offered. Some chapters ask for a modest amount of chapter dues to support chapter activities; check with your chapter leadership to see if that's the case. The AAUP-SC Conference charges no dues; a small percentage of national dues support the Conference for things like this website.

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In 2022, the AAUP merged with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Members of the AAUP are also members of AFT. AAUP Members who are not in collective bargaining units are all members of the giant Local 6741 of the AFT. 

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AAUP-SC Chapters

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