Reference Materials for AAUP Members at TTU

• AAUP Membership Payroll Dues Deduction Form due by September 14, 2007
• Fair Compensation for Quality Instruction, January 2008 (Tennessee Conference of AAUP)
• "Financial Inequality in Higher Education," 2006-07 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession (AAUP)
• Free Exchange on Campus
• The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal
• ArtsJournal.com: The Daily Digest of Arts, Culture & Ideas
• Arts & Letters Daily: an updated report of news and views
• Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
  (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
• National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
• NCHEMS Information Center for State Higher Edcuation Policymaking and Analysis
  (National Center for Higher Education Management Systems)
• State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)
• Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
• State Tax Systems Are Becoming Increasingly Inequitable
  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Despite Past Boom Times, Income Gaps Have Widened in 45 States Over the Past Twenty Years (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)
• Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends (Center on Budget and Policy Prioities/Economic Policy Institute (2006)
• Income Inequality Has Increased in Tennessee Since the 1970s
  (Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends, April 2002, Economic Policy Institute/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
• The Real Budget Deficit: A Call to Invest in Tennessee, Its Communities, and Its People, October 2006)
  (Tennesseans for Fair Taxation and Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
• Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee State Budget:
  Information, Issues, Problems, and Solutions
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (United States Census Bureau)
• USA Statistics in Brief (United States Census Bureau)
• Census State Data Centers (United States Census Bureau)
• Governing: The Magazine of States and Localities
• Grading the States 2001: A Management Report Card
  (Government Performance Project)
• State Fiscal Outlook for FY2002, October 31, 2001 report (National Conference of State Legislatures)
• Tennessee Statistical Abstract
• Shaping the Future: The Economic Impact of Public Universities (Adobe .pdf format)
  (National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges)
• Closing the College Participation Gap (Education Commission of the States)
• Higher Education Resource Hub
• Grapevine: A National Database of Tax Support for Higher Education
  (Center for Higher Education and Educational Finance, Illinois State University)
• Defining Our Future report, Tennessee Board of Regents, December 2001
• Faculty Sub-Council Response to Defining Our Future report
• Legislation Pertaining to Higher Education in Tennessee, 2001
• Information on Tennessee Communities (Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development)
• Bureau of Business and Economic Research (University of Memphis)
• Center for Business and Economic Research Publications (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Tennessee Division of Budget (official state site) 
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• The Condition of Education 2002 (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Measuring Up 2000: The State-By-State Report Card on Higher Education
  (National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education)
• Southern Regional Education Board
• Fact Book on Higher Education 2001
  (Southern Regional Education Board)
• Tennessee Featured Facts
  (SREB Fact Book on Higher Education)
  [.pdf format requires Adobe Acorbat Reader]
• Statistics and Reports (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Report Card  (Tennessee Department of Education)
• Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• Tennessee (Grapevine: An Annual Compilation of Data on State Tax Appropriations for the General Operation of Higher Education
  (Center for the Study of Education Policy, Illinois State University)
• State Government Finance Data, by State (U.S. Census Bureau)
• State Tax Collection Data by State (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Development Report Card for the States: Tennessee (Corporation for Enterprise Development)
  ( .pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States
  (Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy)
• Stateline.org: Your Source for State News
• Tennesseans for Fair Taxation
• [Tennessee State Budget] Fact Book, 2004-2005 (Tennessee General Assembly)
  (*.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• 2004-05 [Tennessee State] Budget Summary (Tennessee General Assembly)
• Stateline.org: your source for state news
• Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998)
  (The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University)
• Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Three Years After the Boyer Report
  (The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University)
• Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA
• Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation (Washington, D.C.)
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation Directories
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (Washington, D.C.)
• International Archive of Education Data (National Center for Education Statistics)
• National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
• Electronic Catalog for National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education)
• Digest of Education Statistics, 1999 (National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
• Faculty Salaries in Colleges and Universities:
  Where Do SREB States Stand?
  (Southern Regional Education Board)
• Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2004, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2004-05 (National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education)
• Education & Government Salary Surveys (JobSmart)
• Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• What Am I Worth? (The Riley Guide)
• "Financial Inequality in Higher Education," 2006-07 Report on the Economic Status of the Profession (AAUP)
• Salaries at TTU (Office of Institutional Research, TTU)
• Notes About the 2000 Faculty Equity Study and Pay Raise (Paul Semmes)
  [.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
• 2000 Faculty Equity Adjustment Graphs (Paul Semmes) [.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]
• Faculty Salaries at More Than 1,700 Institutions (AAUP Faculty Salary Survey)
• CUPA Salary Surveys (College and University Professional Association for Human Relations)
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation (Washington, D.C.)
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation Directories
• Government & Politics (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• The State of E-Learning in the States (National Governors Association)
• A Vision of E-Learning for America’s Workplace:
  Report of the Commission on Technology and Adult Learning (National Governors Association)
• Distance Learning Jobs (Career Network, Chronicle of Higher Education)
• "Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education," October 1997 (David F. Noble)
• David Noble's articles on Digital Diploma Mills
• David F. Noble, "Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education,"
  First Monday, Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1998)
• Tennessee Board of Regents Annual Report Card
• Straight Talk About College Costs and Prices
  (Report of the National Commission on the Costs of Higher Education, January 21, 1998)
• 1940 AAUP Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure With 1970 Interpretive Comments
• Tenure Update (June 2001) [National Education Association]
  (.pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software)
• Teaching Goals Inventory (Center for Teaching, University of Iowa)
• Post-Tenure Review: An AAUP Response
• The AAUP Tradition (Norman Ferris, MTSU)
• TTU Chapter of AAUP Assistance in Academic Matters
• AAUP Guidebook for New Faculty (June 2000)
• Constitution and By-Laws
• Past Presidents of AAUP at TTU
• TTU Faculty Handbook
• The President's Perspective on Tenure, May 1, 1997

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