National Campaign Committee The AAUP is pleased to announce the formation of a prestigious national committee to direct one's course its first-ever capital campaign.
National Campaign Committee
The AAUP is pleased to announce the formation of a prestigious national committee to direct one's course its first-ever capital campaign, the Campaign for the general Good. The goal of the campaign is to strengthen the Association's endowment and to make secure the future of the AAUP as an effective, independent voice for academic freedom in higher education.
"The distinguished members of the National Campaign Committee depict a wide range of experience and expertise the couple within and outside of academia," says Roger Bowen, the Association's general secretary. "They have single in kind important thing in common: they are committed to the subsequent time of higher education as an independent and creative force for the for the use of all good."
Chinua Achebe, acclaimed Nigerian essayist and novelist, author of Things Fall Apart, and Charles P Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College
Kenneth Joseph Arrow, emeritus professor at Stanford University and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in economics.
Robert N Bellah, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of Habits of the Heart.
Jonathan R cabbage John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia University and co-editor of The Research University in a Time of Discontent.
Eric Foner DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of Tom Paine and Revolutionary America.
Rev Theodore M Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame and the first higher education recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.
Sylvia Hurtado, professor and director of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, looks Angeles, and president-elect of the Association for the inquiry of Higher Education.
Stanley N Katz, professor at the Woodrow Wilson gymnasium of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Donald Kennedy president emeritus of and Bing Professor of Higher Education at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of Science magazine.
Linda K Kerber, chair of the history department at the University of Iowa and author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.
Louis Menand, professor of English at Harvard University and author of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club
David Montgomery Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
Martha C Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and author of Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education.
James E Roger chancellor of the University and Community community System of Nevada and planter of Valley Broadcasting Company.
Judith Jarvis Thomson professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Realm of Rights.
Patricia J Williams, L Dohr Professor Law at Columbia University, columnist for the Nation, and author of The Alchemy of Race & Rights.
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