New Council Members Elected

This weekend at the 2026 AAUP Biennial Association Meeting, one at-large member and five regional members were elected to the AAUP's governing Council. The newly elected leaders are listed below, and the full election results can be found here. Congrats to all our new Council members!

At-Large Council Member: Charmaine Chua, University of California, Berkeley

Region 1 (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands): Antonio Gallo, California State University, Northridge

Region 2 (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgian, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia): Leonard Bright, Texas A&M University

Region 3 (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Canada): Gretchen McNamara, Wright State University

Region 4 (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands): Roxanne Shirazi, City University of New York

Region 5 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont): Nikolas Bowie, Harvard University