​Welcome to Willamette University's Advocacy Chapter
of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

​The mission of the AAUP is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. ​For more information about the national organization, visit http://www.aaup.org.