How to vote for AAUP Council

The AAUP National Council election, via weighted, credentialed, delegated in-person voting, will be held on Friday, June 12, from 2 PM to 5 PM and on Saturday, June 13, from 9 AM to 5 PM, in Chicago, per the AAUP National website.

“Weighted, credentialed, delegated in-person voting” here means that each AAUP Chapter votes its membership strength, must send a delegate to the meeting in Chicago, must register and receive their credentials.

To further unpack these terms:

For a chapter with 236 dues-paying members, a credentialed delegate casts a ballot worth 236 votes.

A delegate must have registered online to be a delegate for their given chapter by May 15th. Your chapter president’s email account (or last president if there has been a leadership turnover) should have the instructions for registering as a delegate for your chapter.

You will need to check in, in person, at the credentials desk in the meeting hotel in order to pick up your delegate credentials and be eligible to vote. Delegate check-in and credentialing will only be held on Friday, June 12. It will start at 7 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. In order to be eligible to participate as a delegate in the first meeting session on Friday afternoon, you will have to pick up your credentials by 11 a.m.

You can read more about the Biennial Meeting and election procedures here.