Welcome to the Website of the Eastern Michigan University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (EMU-AAUP)


The EMU-AAUP is the bargaining agent for the full time tenure track faculty of Eastern Michigan University. Since 1974, the EMU-AAUP has had a rich history of negotiating union contracts for the EMU faculty. We have negotiated 15 contracts during our history. This website houses many of our financial analyses on faculty compensation and health care costs. Please take a look at them and if you need information about them please contact us. Our current contract expires on September 1, 2010.

As a member of the National Association of American University Professors and a member of the Collective Bargaining Congress, the EMU-AAUP chapter strives to protect the faculty’s right to academic freedom and ensure faculty governance exists and is upheld at Eastern Michigan University.

In light of the current state of the economy, and the new direction that many universities are taking to use financial exigency as a way to limit faculty rights, our work will take on new meaning. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article indicating that many administrations are using budget problems at universities to limit faculty governance and are cutting programs and faculty without any input from faculty.