Campaign for the Common Good

National Campaign Committee

The AAUP is pleased to announce the formation of a prestigious national committee to steer its first-ever capital campaign, the Campaign for the Common Good. The goal of the campaign is to strengthen the Association's endowment and to ensure the future of the AAUP as an effective, independent voice for academic freedom in higher education.

"The distinguished members of the National Campaign Committee represent a wide range of experience and expertise both within and outside of academia," says Roger Bowen, the Association's general secretary. "They have one important thing in common: they are committed to the future of higher education as an independent and creative force for the common good."

The National Campaign Committee will be co-chaired by Robert M. O'Neil, leading authority on the First Amendment, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, and former president of the University of Virginia and of the University of Wisconsin system, and by Joan Wallach Scott, the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in the School of Social Science, important contributor to the field of women's history, and author of the just released Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism.

Committee Members

Chinua Achebe, acclaimed Nigerian essayist and novelist, author of Things Fall Apart, and Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow, emeritus professor at Stanford University and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in economics.

Robert N. Bellah, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of Habits of the Heart.

Jonathan R. Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia University and co-editor of The Research University in a Time of Discontent.

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of Tom Paine and Revolutionary America.

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame and the first higher education recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal.

Sylvia Hurtado, professor and director of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president-elect of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

Stanley N. Katz, professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Donald Kennedy, president emeritus of and Bing Professor of Higher Education at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of Science magazine.

Linda K. Kerber, chair of the history department at the University of Iowa and author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.

Louis Menand, professor of English at Harvard University and author of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club.

David Montgomery, Farnam Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925.

Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and author of Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education.

James E. Rogers, chancellor of the University and Community College System of Nevada and founder of Valley Broadcasting Company.

Judith Jarvis Thomson, professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Realm of Rights.

Patricia J. Williams, L. Dohr Professor Law at Columbia University, columnist for the Nation, and author of The Alchemy of Race & Rights.

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