We are writing to you as members of the New School Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TNS), a group affiliated with a national organization. Though we are not a union, we are an advocacy group that represents both full and part-time faculty, as well as other educators on campus. We are also a member of the New School Labor Coalition, which has been instrumental in shaping the moment of faculty-student-staff solidarity we are now in. Our mission is to ensure that The New School is attentive to the needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized, and we support a people-centered approach to the immense challenges facing our community in moments of crisis.
Read MoreAAUP-TNS, as part of the New School Labor Coalition, stands in solidarity with our unionized colleagues as they negotiate new contracts with the university.
Read MoreThis statement offers an enumeration of the COVID-19 pandemic impacts on junior faculty. It describes a range of concrete, material and financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Junior Faculty. Insofar as the pandemic is still ongoing, this enumeration is preliminary and partial.
Read MoreIn light of the likelihood of more frequent extreme weather events as a result of climate change in the future, The Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS and The New School Labor Coalition call on the University to perform a full, comprehensive review of its emergency policies and to share the review with the community.
Read MoreWe commit to teach freedom, and join our brothers and sisters in the streets, in the classroom, and in every conceivable location to work for abolition of the carceral state, and for a just world where Black lives matter.
Read MoreAAUP-TNS stands in solidarity with New York University’s AAUP Chapter after Zoom unilaterally pulls the plug on academic event.
Read MoreAAUP-TNS stands in solidarity stands in solidarity with the 122 workers, representing 13% of university staff, who were laid off by The New School on October 2, 2020. The cuts represent less than 2% of the purported $130 million shortfall. This is not about securing a future for The New School, but a struggle over power and the kind of university The New School will be in the future!
Read MoreRead our statement on the Special Voluntary Separation Program (SVSP) that offers early retirement option to about 30% of full-time faculty.
Read MoreAAUP-TNS is committed to working alongside our comrades in The New School Labor Coalition to turn The New School into the workplace and university we need and deserve.
Read MoreRead the joint statement by the X-Divisional Covid-19 Committee and the AAUP-The New School Chapter on the Convening of the Task Force to Explore New Models for Liberal Arts at The New School. The statement outlines criteria for ensuring meaningful participation and shared governance at The New School and demands that the university administration be accountable to faculty, staff, and students during the proposed restructuring of the institution in Fall 2020.
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