The American Association of University Professors is the national professional organization of teachers and research scholars at American colleges and universities. AAUP is the only national organization exclusively representing the interests of college and university faculties.

Its mission is to advance academic freedom, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that have maintained quality education and academic freedom in this country's colleges and universities for most of the twentieth century, and now in the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Its 44,000 members are located at more than 2,000 institutions, 800 of which have organized AAUP chapters. In 39 states (Tennessee is one of these states), chapters have joined together to form state-wide conferences.

AAUP at The University of Memphis

• Office of the President (Dr Shirley Raines)
• Office of the Provost (Dr Ralph Faudree)
• Faculty Handbook
• Tenure and promotion guidelines
• Faculty evaluation
• Faculty Senate
  • Home page
  • Constitution of the University Faculty and the Faculty Senate
• Policies and procedures of The University of Memphis
• Academic regulations (undergraduate)
• Academic regulations (graduate)
• Academic calendars

Tennessee State Conference of AAUP

• Home page
• Documents
• Links to other Tennessee chapters which have Web pages
  • Austin Peay State University
  • Middle Tennessee State University
  • Tennessee Technological University
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Tennessee AAUP listserv (this is the entry page for joining the email list, changing user settings, and searching the archived messages)

State of Tennessee

• Home page
• General Assembly
• Office of the Governor
• Tennessee Higher Education Commission
• Tennessee Board of Regents
  • Home page
  • Academic guidelines
  • Academic policies
  • Legislative Digest

National Office of AAUP

• Home page
• About the AAUP
• Newsroom
• Academe Online
• Issues in higher education
• Academic freedom issues
• Tenure issues
• Contingent faculty issues
• Governance issues
• Legal issues
• Academic research issues
• Government relations
• Policy documents and reports
• Committee reports
• Publications and research
• Get involved
• Membership information
• Links to state conferences
• Links to local chapters
• If you do not find a link to a subject in which you are interested, try the site map, which has links to every document on the national AAUP Web site.