BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Joerg Tiede, Illinois Wesleyan professor of computer science and president of the University’ American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter, has been named to three AAUP national committees.
According to AAUP, the organization’s mission is to advance academic freedom and share governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education and to ensure higher education’s contribution to the common good.
Cary Nelson, president of the national chapter of AAUP, has appointed Tiede to two committees: the committee on membership and the committee on college and university governance, each for the term of three years.
Tiede said the committee on governance “promotes meaningful faculty participation in institutional governance through the development of policy statements and reports related to shared governance and application of those principles to particular situations that are brought to its attention. The staff is authorized to receive, on behalf of the committee, complaints of departures from these standards and, where appropriate, to undertake formal investigations. Such cases may lead to a recommendation from the committee to the association’s national council and annual meeting that an institution be sanctioned for ‘substantial noncompliance with standards of academic governance.’”