Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country’s colleges and universities.

The mission of the American Association of University Professors (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.

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Executive Committee of the MN-AAUP
Current Officers

President

David T. Schmit
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
St. Catherine University
dtschmit@stkate.edu

Vice President

Robert J. Cowgill
Associate Professor of English
Augsburg College
cowgillr@augsburg.edu

Secretary/Treasurer

David Lesniaski
Associate Professor of Library Science
St. Catherine University
dalesniaski@stkate.edu

Directors

Kate Bjork
Professor of History
Hamline University
ksbjork@hamline.edu

Bruce Campbell
Professor of Spanish
College of St. Benedict / St John’s University
BDCampbell@csbsju.edu

Sadredin (Dean) Moosavi
Department of Education, Communication and Outreach
Geological Society of America
smoosavi@charter.et

Mary Pogatshnik
Sr. Teaching Specialist
mpogatshnik@gmail.com