April 30, 2016 – AAUP Louisiana Conference

The Louisiana Conference of the American Association of University Professors held its annual meeting on the Tulane University campus on April 30, 2016. Conference President Ravi Rau opened the meeting at 10:30 a.m. Attending were: Joe Mirando, Al Burstein, Sandra Loucks, Linda Carroll, Stephen Rushing, Dayne Sherman, Brooks Ellwood, Jana Lipman, and Sam Landry.

President Ravi Rau submitted the attached President’s Report to the members.
There was discussion of several cases at state institutions of higher education of detenuring and other matters of tenure and academic freedom that AAUP members have found troublesome. These include instances in which the decisions or recommendations of faculty committees have been overturned by the administration.

The nominating committee presented the following slate of officers for the biennium 2016-2018:

President: Ravi Rau LSU
Vice President: Hugh Wilson, Grambling
Treasurer: Mike Homan, Xavier
Secretary: Leslie Bary, University of Louisiana Lafayette
At Large: Dayne Sherman, Southeastern Louisiana University

The slate was unanimously elected.

President Rau raised the question of the state conference website and its updating. Dayne Sherman was named the new webmaster. There was discussion of requesting funds from the national association to develop it. There was a discussion of the state Committee A; Sudhir Trivedi of Southern University, Baton Rouge, was appointed to chair it.

The meeting concluded at 1:00 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Linda Carroll
Secretary