KSUFA’s current membership dues is 0.8% of base academic year salary. To become compliant with our affiliation dues obligations to AAUP, we would have to immediately ask our members to raise dues to 1% of base academic year salary. As affiliation dues to Ohio Conference AAUP and AAUP national increase, we would need to increase dues periodically – perhaps as high as 1.2%-1.5% of base salary over the next 10 years – in order to continue to provide the same level of representation to Kent State’s faculty that we currently do.
Were KSUFA to disaffiliate from AAUP, not only would we not have to increase dues, we would be able to contemplate reducing our membership dues. Currently, several AAUP Chapters in Ohio have membership dues set at 0.75% of base academic year salary and at least one (Wright State) has dues set at 0.7%.
