Chapter Officers
(until June 2012)

Why Join NFA?

A strong NFA chapter of the American Association of University Professors helps ward off faculty workplace problems by establishing the visible presence of a group known nearly a century for its diligence and vigilance. Nationally, for more than 80 years, the AAUP has promoted and protected faculty interests. Tenure, due process, academic freedom, and shared college governance are higher education employee rights that have been kept alive and strengthened by its activities. Although some AAUP affiliates have negotiated collective bargaining agreements with their colleges and universities, including the Truckee Meadows CC chapter of NFA, NFA/AAUP is not a labor union; it is an advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and preserving the integrity of the faculty profession at NSHE institutions. In many respects, if you are a CSN faculty member, NFA is as vital to your professional existence as is any professional discipline organization to its members.    

Membership in NFA puts you in consultation with colleagues at the national, state, and local campus levels who can help you keep the fairness, freedom, and safety rights you already have as a faculty member. Your membership tells everyone that you care enough for your profession to stand up for its rights and to stand with your colleagues to preserve those rights. Your elected leaders of your CSN Chapter of NFA are concerned with those issues that are important to you. Please never hesitate to call upon your chapter board or bring your concerns or suggestions to a monthly meeting. It’s our combined efforts uniting in one voice that makes a beneficial difference for us all.

Being a member of NFA is not just the smart thing to do, it’s the right thing to do.

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Why Support NFA-PAC?

Our State NFA Political Action Committee has interviewed many would-be regents, state senators, and representatives to the state assembly and has endorsed those candidates who support higher education and NSHE faculty. Nonetheless, NFA is looking ahead to a challenging election and legislative session in 2010-2011. If you are already contributing to the NFA PAC, thank you.  Please consider increasing your PAC contribution. If you are not contributing to the NFA PAC, please consider making this critical contribution to help with our advocacy throughout the next few years. For updates on NFA PAC lobbying efforts, click here.

If you enjoy local and state politics and can commit to participate in the significant number of interviews conducted with candidates for the Board of Regents and the state legislature, you might volunteer to serve on the Southern Nevada PAC.  Contact Sondra to join or to learn more information about this committee's vital work supporting faculty's interests in and forging personal connections to our state's legislative process.