2026-2027
Committee Roster
Brian Halley, Massachusetts, Co-Chair, (brian DOT halley AT umb DOT edu)
Heather Stauffer, Syracuse, Co-Chair, (hestauff AT syr DOT edu)
Emma Burridge, Liverpool
Amber Cederstrom, Wisconsin
Riley Hines, Oklahoma
Steffi Marchman, Notre Dame
Caroline McKusick, Stanford
Jessica Thomson, Harvard Education
Board Liaison
Hilary Claggett, Georgetown
Central Office Liaison
Annette Windhorn
Charge
General Objective:
- Create, implement, and monitor programs to help scholars improve their understanding of scholarly publishing, the role of university presses, and the value of peer review, primarily as a service to scholarship but also to support individual Association members in demonstrating value to their parent institutions and develop a community of faculty advocates for presses everywhere; consider especially the needs of historically underrepresented, marginalized, underfunded, and/or independent scholars in your activities.
Specific Charges to the Faculty Outreach Committee:
- Provide content for the Ask UP website: Continue to develop new content, especially with regard open access and emerging generative AI questions–engaging with other committees as needed –and with an eye toward integrating equity, justice, and inclusion concerns throughout. Finalize the set of new FAQs begun with EJIB Committee in 2025-2026. Continue to assess and update aging content, including the Resources page, Establish new content development and/or hosting practices for the mature site. work with Central Office staff to continue to promote the site.
- Finalize a Glossary of Scholarly Publishing.
- Continue outreach to scholarly associations/learned societies/graduate student groups and place publishing programming at key academic meetings. Continue to organize UP publishing panel at MLA 2027 and 2028. Continue dialogue with the National Humanities Center about potential collaboration.
- Strategize on how this committee might empower and support UP’s relationships with their institutions; how can this committee be more proactive in connecting AUPresses to scholarly associations/learned societies; how/can the committee support placing publishing programming at key academic meetings? Include recommendations in your final report to the board.
Common Charges to All Committees of the Association:
- Submit reports on Committee activities to the Association Board in time for its October, March, and June meetings. Interim reports are due on 12 October 2026, and 26 February 2027; final reports that recap all committee activities for the year and are shared with the membership are due 31 May 2027. Follow guidelines for preparing reports found in the Chair Handbook in the Committee and Task Force Chairs Group on UP Commons.
- Follow all guidelines and requirements published in the AUPresses Chair Handbook, including those regarding the use of UP Commons, inclusion of board and staff liaisons, scheduling webinars & hangouts, and any research or survey projects.
- Appoint a member of your committee, ideally not the chair or cochair, to serve as a liaison to the Equity, Justice, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee. This role provides updates on your committee’s efforts in support of equity and inclusion, seeks information, support, or guidance on EJIB matters as needed, and attends a Fall meeting for liaisons hosted by EJIB Committee.
- Prior to the deadline for the annual meeting Call for Proposals, suggest one or more panel or speaker ideas to the Annual Meeting Program Committee.
- Consider nominating a member of your committee, or a member of the community with whom your committee interacts, for the AUPresses Constituency Award when announced.
- Review your General Objective and Specific Tasks at the end of the service year and recommend changes for next year to the Executive Director.
Committee Projects
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