Texas AAUP-AFT

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AAUP champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes all faculty to promote economic security and quality education. Texas AAUP-AFT is Texas American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 8041A.

The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)  is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define  fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to  promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals,  graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in  teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education  community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher  education’s contribution to the common good.  

Texas AAUP-AFT Organizers:

Alvaro Chavez
Texas-AFT Lead Organizer
P: (626) 272-0130
chaveza@texasaft.org

Amanda Garcia
Texas-AFT Organizer
P: (956) 369-5201
agarcia@texasaft.org

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89th Legislature in Review: Your Right to Healthy, Safe Working Conditions 

Publish Date: July 24, 2025

Texas AFT United members visit a lawmaker’s office during the 89th legislative session and discuss the need for our Educator’s Bill of Rights.   This plank in your Educator’s Bill of Rights states that “safety is a prerequisite for learning.” If our educators and students do not feel secure in their classrooms, then teaching and learning cannot take place effectively....

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