AAUP recommends to Pres. Daniels and Dean Lundstrom that there be faculty representation on the search committees and decisionmaking process as Purdue selects its new leaders. Our next Purdue President and Dean of Engineering should be selected by search committees that include representatives with obligations to Purdue’s students. We as Purdue need to think differently if we want a different outcome. We want search committees consisting of a wide range of Purdue community members – not just including us faculty – who are responsible and accountable to the public.
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AAUP 26-27 Priority Letter
Welcome to the 2026–2027 academic year. The Purdue chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) looks forward to continuing our work on behalf of faculty, staff, and graduate students across the West Lafayette and Indianapolis campuses. As you saw with last year’s successful call for the University Senate to pass a vote of […]
We learned through an email message from the Board of Trustees that President Mung Chiang has decided to leave Purdue University and assume the Presidency at Northwestern University. This is an opportunity to reestablish full shared governance at Purdue University and re-focus on our mission: education and research for the public good. The most recent […]
The American Association of University Professors Purdue Chapter calls for the immediate resignation of Provost Patrick J. Wolfe and a vote of no confidence in the Provost in Purdue’s University Senate. Since Provost Wolfe’s promotion to Provost in January 2023, Purdue University and its undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty have suffered from the […]
March 7, 2024 West Lafayette, IN – The Purdue University (West Lafayette) chapter of the American Association of University Professors stands firm in its rejection of Senate Bill 202 which passed a House and Senate vote in the Indiana legislature last week. The Bill seeks to enable the state legislature and university administrations to monitor […]
The Purdue-West Lafayette and Indiana University-Bloomington chapters of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) join in opposing Indiana Senate Bill 202 in its current form. Adoption of SB 202 would severely damage the ability of Indiana’s two public Research-1 universities—Purdue-West Lafayette and IU-Bloomington—to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, erasing the State of Indiana’s uniquely […]
On Friday June 10, 2022, Purdue University’s Board of Trustees announced with no warning the appointment of a new university president starting on January 1, 2023. The appointment of a new president is a monumental decision that should include input and consultation with all key stakeholder groups on campus, including campus faculty. Yet the Board […]
The Purdue chapter of the American Association of University Professors, endorses the requests of the Black Student Union released 4/12/2022 upon Purdue’s concluding report about the event of police violence against Adonis Tuggle on 2/4/2022. The Black Student Union, in collaboration with the National Society for Black Engineers, the Purdue National Pan-Hellenic Council, the Purdue […]
The Purdue chapter of the American Association of University Professors stands in solidarity with the graduate workers on strike at Indiana University (IGWC-UE) and the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC GEO). We support all graduate workers in their struggle to secure a living wage and safe working conditions. Graduate students make the educational mission of higher […]
The Purdue Chapter of the American Association of University Professors expresses grave concern for the process by which the Shared Governance Taskforce is presenting its findings at the April 2022 Board of Trustees meeting in executive session on 4/7/22. We highlight several of our concerns here. The document being presented to the Board has not […]