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Job security (including from department/program closures) and pay equity for NC-system faculty including those who are part time and contingent.

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The prospect of program elimination at various UNC institutions, which will be made far easier if proposed changes to Chapter VI of the UNC Code are approved.

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The removal of diversity, equity and inclusion as part of the academic goals of institutions.

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wages & health care

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Support for contract faculty

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Threats to academic freedom and protests on campus.

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Strategies for building our base and recruiting more of our colleagues to AAUP--we've been working on this on our campus, but it is challenging.

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Free speech

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academic freedom, attacks on academic sources of funding by demonizing dei

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Contract faculty rights, unions

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NIH funding crisis

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Backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion

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Pushing decision makers to protect worker's jobs. Push back against federal cuts.

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Organizing structures across and within university to build political power collectively and build heartfelt solidarity over the long term (both things we have way to little of now)

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Executive Orders and NC Government demands and NC DOGE

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Why no one joins the NC AAUP on my campus

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Anti-DEI policies / threats to academic freedom

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Protecting academic freedom and freedom of speech on university campuses

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pushing back against the anti-DEI legislation

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1. Repression of student activists 2. Universities cooperating with ICE and the state 3. Working towards changing the law so faculty at private universities like Elon can unionize 4. Push for cost of living salary adjustments 5. recruit members

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academic freedom

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Lack of Decision making by faculty

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The current challenges posed by the Musk Adminstration to both the University as a whole and academic freedom

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Electing a new president!

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Among all the other issues facing higher education under the new regime in the US, I would like NC AAUP to also keep an eye on the growing risks facing our international colleagues—faculty, staff, students.

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Advocating for precarious workers (students, postdocs, fixed-term & adjunct faculty)

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Trump regime persecution of faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and university staff for freedom of expression and for exercising academic freedom!

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Campus speakers--prior censorship of speakers, civil discourse guidelines for both speakers and audience

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How institutions should respond to the current attack on higher education.

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Deportation of our students

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Supporting legal challenges to executive overreach re: first amendment protections.

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Protection of entire academic community -- students, faculty, institutional admin

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Academic freedom and organizing for protection of the academy

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Walkout/demonstration/DO SOMETHING CONCRETE

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Shared governance and the administration accountability

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Freedoms of speech/ and “disappearing” people

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Anticipatory obedience culture of UNC administration, non-transparency and lack of shared governance

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Protecting international students from apprehension/ deportation

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Immigrant rights

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Student safety from illegal arrests

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Attacks on DEI in education

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The attack on the sciences, especially the banning of the concept of "climate" and "climate change"...as demonized as the concepts of DEI, the point being to disable us and our economies from dealing with climate catastrophes and extreme weather events (including access to public funding during recovery)

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Replacing teaching and learning with AI, years already in the making. We have no say in how we use technology, rather systems of governance make it so that we must succumb to the tech fantasies of the oligarchs (+ Silicon Valley)

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Building forms of solidarity in practice, the likes of which we have not seen before in the neoliberal university hierarchy

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The precarity of PhD students and other graduate students and the need for them to unionize. Make collective bargaining law in North Carolina!