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About AAUP-UNH

About AAUP-UNH

AAUP-UNH is both an advocacy chapter of the national AAUP, working to maintain academic freedom and an effective role for faculty in the governance of the University, and a union. As the faculty union, AAUP-UNH negotiates with the USNH Board of Trustees all terms and conditions of employment for tenure-track faculty. These include, but are not limited to, salaries and benefits, faculty rights, procedures for promotion and tenure, grievance procedures, and procedures for non-reappointment or dismissal.
In addition, the Chapter retains a professional legislative lobbyist in Concord to further the interests of the UNH faculty and the University. AAUP-UNH also solicits voluntary contributions to a PAC to aid the campaigns of legislators sympathetic to the mission of the University.
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The AAUP-UNH office is Located in 328 Nesmith Hall

Chapter History

 The UNH chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was established in 1928. The AAUP is a national organization that has established and maintained professional and ethical standards in academe for more than 80 years. It is the AAUP that firmly established the principle of academic freedom in colleges and universities nationwide and the tenure system that protects it.
 Beginning in the late Sixties, the economic pressure of declining faculty compensation caused many college and university faculties to turn to collective bargaining as an effective means of attaining the Association's goals in higher education, and many AAUP chapters became collective bargaining chapters
Every state university in the Northeast, save the University of Vermont, had collective bargaining, but faculty at the University of New Hampshire did not opt for collective bargaining until 1990. In 1980, faculty compensation at UNH was at the average for New England state universities. By 1990, it was the lowest in New England. In response, the UNH Chapter of the AAUP applied to the NH Public Employee Labor Relations Board for recognition as the collective bargaining agent for all tenure-track faculty at UNH. In an election run by the PELRB, a majority of UNH faculty voted to accept AAUP-UNH as the faculty's collective bargaining agent.

Executive Committee

Executive Committee 2020-2021

Cliff Brown, ​President
Sociology

Siobhan Senier, Vice President
English & Women's and Gender Studies

Lori Dobbins, Secretary
& Grievance Officer

Music

Carolyn Mebert, Treasurer
Psychology


Laurie Chapman Bosco, Member at Large
Thompson School of Applied Science

Sterling Tomellini, Member at Large

Chemistry

Mike Carter, Past President
Deanna Wood, Past President


Contract Administrator
Sterling Tomellini
Chemistry

Contract Negotiator
Mike Carter
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Not pictured:
Carolyn Mebert
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CLIFF BROWN
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LORI DOBBINS
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STERLING TOMELLINI
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DEANNA WOOD
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SIOBHAN SENIER
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LAURIE CHAPMAN BOSCO
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MICHAEL CARTER

AAUP-UNH Staff

Chapter Administrator
Tamsin Whitehead

Communications &
Membership Coordinator

Peter Welch


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TAMSIN WHITEHEAD
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PETER WELCH
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