about Us
United Academics of Maryland is the statewide campaign to build unions for full time faculty at Maryland’s community colleges. After fighting for, and finally winning the right to collective bargaining for Community College employees in 2021, we’re coming together, college-by-college, to build strong, faculty-led unions committed to academic freedom, high-quality education, and respect and dignity for everyone on our campuses.
Our Affiliates
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is a union of professionals that champions fairness, democracy, economic opportunity, high-quality public education, healthcare, and public services for our students, their families, and our communities.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is a nonprofit membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the country.
AFT-Maryland, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, was chartered in 1973 and today represents more than 18,000 members in the State of Maryland.
AFT and AAUP Join Forces
Delegates to the biennial meeting of the AAUP voted on June 18th, 2022, to affiliate with the AFT, joining forces to build a more powerful and inclusive academic labor movement that will be better able to take on the challenges facing higher education as well as the threats to our democracy.
This historic alliance comes against the backdrop of increased legislative attacks on teaching and academic freedom, as well as persistent underfunding of public higher education that has led to the explosion in student debt as well as adjunct precarity and poverty. Through the affiliation, the 44,000-member AAUP and the 1.7 million-member AFT will work hand in hand to protect academic freedom and unify faculty voices to fight back at the local, state and federal levels.
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