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 […]
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 […]
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN – Three Purdue chapters of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) – West Lafayette, Northwest, and Fort Wayne – released a statement today expressing disappointment in the secretive process by which the Purdue University Board of Trustees have selected Purdue’s next president. The Board announced on Friday, June 10 that the […]
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 […]
Contact: Alice Pawley, alicepawley@gmail.com, 765-427-0923 Noor Borbieva, noorborbieva@gmail.com, 518-545-9088 David Detmer, daviddetmer@yahoo.com Date: June 11, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEST LAFAYETTE, IN – On Friday, the Purdue University Board of Trustees voted to adopt an undergraduate civics literacy graduation requirement for the Purdue University system starting in Fall 2021, over the objections of the Purdue […]
AAUP-Purdue chapter members and other faculty across the Purdue system organized faculty to push back on the Board of Trustees’ decision to adopt an undergraduate civics literacy graduation requirement systemwide over the objections of the University Senate, and without consulting the faculty Senates of Purdue-Northwest and Purdue-Fort Wayne, or the governing body of the Purdue […]
Many faculty at Purdue are critically worried about the decision of the Purdue Board of Trustees to do two things: 1) vote to adopt an undergraduate graduation requirement without consent of the University Senate; and 2) apply it system-wide without engaging faculty at the regional campuses. That the graduation requirement is about civics literacy, when […]
The Purdue Board of Trustees has announced that it is going to vote to adopt a civics literacy graduation requirement at its June 2021 meeting. The requirement, as written about in Purdue News, will include all West Lafayette undergraduate students: passing an exam, which they can take as many times as they like, (which is being […]