WELCOME TO THE AAPA

AAPA is the Academy of Academic Personnel Administrators. AAPA was established, and convened its first meeting, in 1972.  The purpose of the organization then, as it is now, is a vehicle for Universities to share information, ideas, interests and concerns for professionals who represent four-year college and universities in collective bargaining with their unionized academic employees, including tenure track and non-tenure track instructional or research faculty, librarians, postdocs, graduate student teaching assistants and research assistants.  We communicate with each other through our listserv and our annual three-day conference held in the Fall.

 

 

If you’re an administrator involved in academic labor relations, you’ll be in good company and will have the value of collective thinking. This organization is like no other professional organization. We focus on only one topic, academic collective bargaining.  There are no membership dues, as information is shared through a listserv and the annual conference held in late fall in Florida.

 

Below are a couple of recent examples of the type of questions that are circulated via our listserv:

 

 

Dear AAPA Colleagues,

 

1) I'm looking for some policy guidance on two issues: (1) release time for faculty who own their own businesses related to their research; and (2) conflict of interest/commitment for faculty with appointments at other universities (especially abroad).

 

Thanks, in advance, for anything you can send my way.

 

 2) I am wondering if anyone has examples of union approved mechanisms/language for retaining faculty through base salary adjustments.  Our contract allows administration to determine starting salary, but subsequent increases are determined by the contract, and over time, those increases tend to be outpaced by the market.  I am interested in two things:

a. How do other institutions handle competitive offers with their unions?  Do they allow a base adjustment in that case, and if so, is the amount prescribed or at the discretion of administration?

b. Are there examples of mechanisms that allow base salary increases for high achievers (e.g., faculty who generate significant external funding)?

 

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