Annual Meeting, April 21, 2018
Louisiana Conference AAUP Minutes of Annual Meeting 21 April, 2018 LSU-Alexandria Leslie Bary, Secretary The meeting was called to order at 1 PM by President Ravi Rau, who submitted a report of his activities in AY 2017-2018 (attached/appended, to be posted to website as AAUP State Conference Newsletter–April 21, 2018). Attending were Hugh Wilson, Vice-President, Brooks Ellwood, Past President, Leslie Bary, Secretary, Sudhir Trivedi, Chair, Committee A, Nigel Gwee, Tom Miller, and Brian Salvatore. Treasurer Michael Homan submitted a written report. We have over $17,000 in our account, of which some $1,000 a year is contributed by AAUP National. On behalf of the now dissolved Faculty Defense Committee, Sudhir Trivedi presented to us a check for $10,123.97. It was moved and voted (7 in favor, 1 abstention) that since the bulk of these funds were raised by faculty at Southern University-Baton Rouge, the new AAUP chapter at SUBR will be the first recipient of a portion of these funds. President Ravi Rau pointed out that AAUP National also has funds for chapter development, that can be applied for each year and that Louisiana AAUP chapters should take advantage of. Secretary Leslie Bary reported that formal minutes were not kept of…