The Purdue University West Lafayette chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-Purdue) sides in solidarity with academic colleagues and progressive associations nationally in condemning the racist, Anti-Asian remarks of Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon. We join the call of many others, led by Asian-American students and colleagues, calling for Keon’s removal. Chancellor Keon […]
Category: public statements
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 […]
AAUP-Purdue asks Purdue Administration and University Senate to investigate funding cuts to the Department of English, given failures of shared governance Over the course of the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 semesters, the administration of the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) and the administration of the Department of English have engaged in extended public disputes […]
The Purdue Chapter of the American Association of University Professors emphatically condemns the violent campus police attack on Adonis Tuggle that occurred on February 4, 2022. Adonis is a junior studying psychology, is a member of the Boilermaker community, and is one of a small and easily targeted group of Black men on this campus […]
(This statement is inspired by and draws text from the work of the African American Policy Forum [1], and a version drafted by senate colleagues at Ball State University [2].) In the summer of 2021, Republican politicians began proposing legislation against “divisive concepts” and critical race theory. Bills have passed in at least fourteen states […]
The AAUP chapter at Purdue-West Lafayette executive committee voted today to endorse the following statement: The Purdue (West Lafayette) chapter of the American Association of University Professors expresses shock and dismay at the disregard for shared governance at Marian University with respect to their plan to dissolve the Department of Political Science. The process by […]
The Executive Committee of the Purdue Chapter of the American Association of University Professors endorses the open letter crafted by Purdue faculty and staff associated with the Purdue Center for the Environment (C4E) Building Sustainable Communities (BSC) Signature Research Area (SRA). The letter expresses grave concern about President Daniels’s recent invitation to host Dr. Steven […]