luc aaup’s site

by Jacob Henry Leveton

This fall, our Loyola AAUP chapter launched a new website: AAUP-LUC.org/

The site is both a hub and a signal: a place to connect and a statement of our commitments.

It makes visible, accessible, and enduring our shared work for academic freedom, equity, and shared governance.

Our mission is framed with clarity: to organize, to defend, and to transform—for truth, justice, and the common good.

Visitors can explore our work to Advocate for faculty, Organize through teach-ins and coalitions, Defend rights and governance, and Imagine new futures for higher education.

The site’s Design Philosophy is intentional: Loyola-rooted yet nationally aligned with AAUP’s mission. Its visual language draws on our Ignatian values and is grounded in landmarks such as the Madonna della Strada Chapel, representing our dual commitments to tradition and transformation.

Our aim is to bring faculty together across ranks, offer a space of solidarity and care, and affirm that academic freedom is non-negotiable.

We invite all colleagues to visit, learn more, and join us in this work of sustaining academic life at Loyola. For membership inquiries, contact Alice Weinreb (aliceaut@gmail.com)

Jacob Henry Leveton is Part-Time Instructor in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches courses in Art History, Visual Culture, and Critical Theory. He is Secretary of the LUC AAUP Chapter and edits the non-standard, a weekly paper for experimentation in the materialisms of the present.

This post originally appeared as the AAUP Corner of the monthly Loyola University Chicago Faculty Council Newsletter on Sep. 26, 2025.