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Bcaaup.org is home for the public communications of the Boston College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Privately, members work on chapter affairs and positions within a collaborative environment at share.bc.edu. Go to our blog (Baldwin’s Aerie) for news and chapter activities. The membership publishes final reports on its work on this blog after the chapter votes to approve a position or recommendation. Access to share.bc.edu is by username for members of the Boston College chapter only. Also, go to our Faculty Committees Quad for a compilation of the summaries and minutes of all the university committees on which faculty sit. A governance center is simulated here because one goal of BCAAUP is to bring into being an actual deliberative body to which all these committees would report. Keep yourself up to date on the proceedings of these committees and councils. Bcaaup.org also provides RSS feeds from websites and blogs commenting on issues in higher education (right hand column of this site). Welcome.
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Public Event: Show Us the Money!
University Financial Statements
Evaluating how colleges and universities prioritize and spend their budgets is a crucial skill for those affected by these decisions. Students, staff and community activists have to judge whether these institutions are adhering to their public missions and expending resources in accordance with their charitable purposes. Far too often claims of austerity go unchallenged due to confusion about financial reports that are presented as objective facts when they are actually represent particular political agendas.
On Thursday, March 22nd, 2012, BCAAUP invites you to attend a discussion of the financial pressures in higher education with a focus on BC’s finances with Professor Howard Bunsis, PhD, J.D., CPA, professor of Accounting at Eastern Michigan University.
Professor Bunsis is the current Secretary-Treasurer of the national AAUP, Chair of their Collective Bargaining Congress and well known authority and speaker on university financial statements and collective bargaining issues. We hope you will be able to join us.
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Fulton Hall 511
4:30pm-6:30pm
