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F.A.Q.
Do you have questions about United Academics, the AFT-AAUP, or your membership? Let us know!
What is United Academics?
United Academics is a joint AAUP-AFT local for all non-collectively bargaining, pre-majority union AAUP “advocacy chapters” and at-large members that was formed when AAUP and AFT merged in 2022.
Who can be a member of United Academics?
Any member of AAUP National who is not in a collective bargaining local of AAUP-AFT is, by definition, in United Academics, AAUP-AFT Local 6741. This means that all at-large members and all members at universities with pre-majority union “advocacy chapters” (i.e., non-collective bargaining AAUP chapters) are in United Academics.
What does it mean to be a member of United Academics?
Being a member of United Academics means that you have a say in the future direction of both AAUP and AFT. It is a gathering space for non-collective bargaining, pre-majority union AAUP members to organize together for power and advocate for their needs to AAUP and AFT leadership.
Can advocacy chapters form collective bargaining unions?
Yes! And we would love to help you do it! Get in touch to discuss.
elected OFFICERS
Matthew Thomas Miller
University of Maryland
President
Heather Ferguson
Claremont McKenna
Vice President
Jorge Coronado
Northwestern University
Secretary Treasurer
Bethany Letiecq
George Mason University
Executive Committee Member
Andrew Douglas
Morehouse College
Executive Committee Member
DELEGATES
Laura Alarcon
Luka Arsenjuk
Aarushi Bhandari
Belle Boggs
Laura Bray
Gerald Campano
Dennis Deslippe
Daniel Greene
Meghan Grosse
Amy Hagopian
Daniel Hosang
Rafael Khachaturian
Crystal Luo
Crystal Luo
Kevin McElrath
Jennifer McLeer
James “Ward” Morrow
Bill Mullen
Sam Plasencia
Cedar Riener
Andrew Ross
Zach Samalin
Caitlin Smith
Emily Steinmetz
Dominic Walker
Melissa M. Wilcox
Local 6741 Constitution & Bylaws
Constitution and Bylaws of Local 6741, AFT-AAUP, AFL-CIO
INTERVIEW WITH LOCAL 6741 LEADERS
The questions of who gets to go to school, who teaches the ones who go, and under what conditions, are thus profoundly entangled with one another—and with the wider question of the future of our increasingly undemocratic, unequal, and fearful society. They can only be addressed together, at once, by a popular struggle for the right of young people to learn and nurture their capacities without the shadow of financial indenture, the liberty of scholars to teach and study free from fear, and the necessity for our society in general to preserve its own institutional organs of experimentation and self-reflection—the colleges and universities.