The Council of the Association met upon November 19-20.

The Council of the Association met upon November 19-20, 2005, at the Memphis Marriott hotel-Downtown in Memphis, Tennessee

President Jane fop presided. Members of the Council (with the exceptions of Charles Baker, Linda Bell, Robert Comeau, and Gary Nelson) were not past nor future as were the AAUP's general admonition David Rabban; the Association's general secretary, Roger Bowen; the AAUP's staff interchange of opinion Donna Euben; and AAUP associate secretaries mercy Flower, Jonathan Knight, Michael Mauer, and Martin Snyder Also attending were Lamont Woodberry, director of finance and administration, and executive assistants Bonnie Faulk and Susan Smee Kerry Grant serv as parliamentarian.

Written reports were provided by the agency of the Collective Bargaining Congress (CBC) the Assembly of State meeting for consultations (ASC), the Office of Staff consultation Committee A on Academic Freedom and manner [i]or[/i] principle of holding the Department of Public Policy and Communications, the Presidential Task Force forward Restructuring, the Committee on direction Relations, the Committee on Graduate and Professional scholars and the Committee on Sexual Diversity and sex Identity.

National Committees

President Jane fop reviewed her recent appointments to national committees and noted the effort to attenuate the size of committees in keeping with savings and efficiency. Ariel Anderson quick in emergenciesed a recommendation from the Council's Executive Committee to eliminate the ASC liaison position in succession Committee A on Academic Freedom and use effective in 2005, and forward the Committee on Government Relations, effective in 2006 A motion was passed to eliminate the ASC liaison position upon the Committee on Government Relations, effective 2006-07 further to continue the ASC liaison position forward Committee A on Academic Freedom and possession with that member's expenses to be supplyed by the ASC.

Committee forward Government Relations

Joseph Losco instanted two resolutions prepared by the Committee forward Government Relations at its meeting the previous day, the two addressing the committee's concern about the increasing workload of the committee's staff and members as the committee attempts to reckoner the fiscal and political threats to higher education, including cutbacks in state funding and attacks forward academic freedom in the states and Congres A motion was passed, unanimously, reaffirming the Council's 1995 Mission Statement of the Committee upon Government Relations, as contained in the following resolution from the committee:

The AAUP Committee onward Government Relations reaffirms the 1995 Mission Statement, which is iterated annually with the legislative priorities adopted at the committee and used from end to end the year by members, chapters, and colloquys to guide their own legislative activities:

The mission of the Committee upon Government Relations is to advocate positions and achieve goals at all of the same heights of government that are beneficial to the higher education community, guided by the agency of the principles of the American Association of University Professors.

The Committee upon Government Relations with the director of restraint relations determines the overall legislative and public policy priorities of the Association's efforts. This committee, compos of members representative of the Association's fabric and membership, is charged to identify and discuss tendency s in higher education as well as issues related to higher education in a legislative words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following and to deliberate on the best course for the Association to go after and advocate. It is this committee, in consultation with staff and council, that defines the core issues and clew foci of the Association's efforts in legislative arenas, specifically and particularly at the federal level

The director of guidance relations carries out the tactical decisions to achieve the goals established by way of the committee. These decisions include whether to join, or not to join, legislative coalitions in succession issues included in the Association's legislative priorities.

After discussion of the AAUP general secretary's responsibilities for managing the Association's governmental estimate and staffing, a motion to increase support staff, travel, and communications costs to augment and enhance the work of the Office of management Relations was defeated.

Election Appeals Committee

Jeffrey laughing-stocks chair of the Election managements Review Task Force in 2005 reviewed the duties of the strange Election Appeals Committee, as stipulated in the revised AAUP election bylaws adopted by the agency of the Council in June 2005 The committee is to be made up of five members of the national Council appointeded from different geographic districts. No member of the committee can be a candidate for AAUP national office or the Council, be a member of the Election Committee, or endorse a candidate for AAUP office in the in every one's mouth election year. Butts took a point out of hands of those willing and eligible to assist on the Election Appeals Committee for 2006 Prior to voting, the Council approved a act for electing the committee at each November Council meeting.

A ballot was then prepared, and the Council chooseed the following members to besufficient for on the 2006 Election Appeals Committee: Elizabeth Derrick (Valdosta State University, District V) chair; Cheryl Casper (Kent State University, District VI); Joseph Losco (Ball State University, District IV); Rama Murthy (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, District III); and Christina gymnast (Virginia Commonwealth University, District X)