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MISSION STATEMENT
The Emeritus Assembly of The Connecticut State Conference of the AAUP is committed to the following pursuits: promotion of the social, professional and general welfare interests of emeritus professors of institutions of higher education in Connecticut and the support of the professional and economic interests of the active faculties of the Connecticut institutions of higher education wherever possible and appropriate.

Mission Statement, the process: As told by Mary Rogers and David DeNuccio.

Fall 2003, Mary Rogers writes:

What is our purpose?
We ought to have a mission statement, observed a member at a recent meeting.
We do, answered an older member, it's in the Constitution.
A copy of the Constitution of the Emeritus Assembly was produced, and Article II, Purpose, noted. It says: To promote the social and professional interests and general welfare of emeritus professors of institutions of higher learning in Connecticut.
David DeNuccio proposed a new purpose, or mission statement. Condensed and modified from the objectives and/or purposes Articles enunciated in the Constitutions of the Connecticut State Conference of the AAUP and the Connecticut State University AAUP, and after considerable discussion, the following was proposed:

Since this will be an amendment to the Constitution, members will be asked to vote on this new Article II at a coming meeting.*

Here is the rationale which Dave offers for the new statement:. He writes:After attending several meetings, it appeared that matters pertaining to the professional and economic interests of active faculties in Connecticut institutions of higher education dominated much of the meetings' discussions. In addition, a Mission Statement of the Assembly appeared desirable as a concise overview of activities of the Assembly, especially for new members and those individuals considering membership. Also a review of article II, Purpose, of the 1988 Constitution indicated that the Assembly's recent activities did indeed exceed those described in Article II.

Therefore, a Mission Statement was drafted that encompassed both emeritus and active faculty concerns and was presented in writing by David DeNuccio to the officers and executive board of the Assembly at the October 20, 2003 meeting. Following grammatical correction the statement was accepted. The Officers and Executive Board allowed for the statement to be placed before the assembly for ratification as both the Mission statement and a replacement for the current "Purpose" of the Organization as stated in Article II of the Constitution."

(The Constitution of the Emeritus Assembly, a brief, bare-bones document giving name and purpose, membership and officers, standing committees, meetings, and a provision for amendments, was adopted in May, 1988. The only change to that original document occurred in 1991 when it was decided that the one year terms provided for in the original document required unnecessarily frequent changes. An amendment was passed at the May 1991 meeting. Article IV, Officers and Elections, was amended to provide for two year terms for officers, election of president and vice-president in even-numbered years, election of secretary and treasurer in odd-numbered years, and the ability to present the slate of officers at the previous meeting. - rather than requiring that it be mailed out to all members as original document specified. Amendments require a simple majority of voting members at a regular business meeting.)

*The Mission Statement was unanimously ratified by members of the Assembly on April 20th, 2004.