Chapter Building and Action Strategies

Overview

• Chapter Development -- An Overview
  (PPT 4.8 MB - may take time to download)
• AAUP Glossary of Terms

Articles on Action Strategies

• Negotiating Salary and Benefits Outside Collective Bargaining
  
• Communicating to Members and the Media by Newsletters, Web Sites, and Other Means
• Campus Mail Use for Advocacy Chapters
• Ten Commandments for Chapter Builders
• Seven Habits of Effective Chapter Leaders
• 6 Principles and 66 Ways to Implement Them
  
• Starting Campus Coalitions
• AAUP Chapter Membership Drive
• Lobbying at the State Level
  
• Talk to Two Program at Rutgers

Other Resources

Recruitment Videos

• AAUP Recruitment Videos

Sample Recruitment Letters

• About Recruitment Letters
  
• 1999 Illinois AAUP Recruitment Letter
• Letter to Prospective Members - New Faculty
• Letter to Lapsed Members
• Open Letter to Graduate Students
• Open Letter to Part-Time Faculty

Sample Newsletters and Newspapers

• Sample Chapter Newsletter - Michigan State | page 2
• Sample State Conference Newspaper – Connecticut
• Sample State Conference Newspaper – Illinois