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About UUP

Welcome to UUP!

United University Professions (UUP) is the nation’s largest higher education union, with more than 42,000 academic and professional faculty and retirees. UUP members work at 29 State University of New York campuses, plus System Administration, Empire State College, and SUNY’s public teaching hospitals and health science centers in Brooklyn, Long Island and Syracuse. UUP is affiliated with New York State United Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the AFL-CIO.

UUP represents SUNY faculty and other professionals at the bargaining table and works to protect their interests by:

      • Achieving improvements in salary, fringe benefits, working conditions and retirement programs.
      • Providing funding for professional growth and development through leaves, awards, conferences and other grant programs.
      • Obtaining state resources for the State University through effective legislative and political action.
      • Seeking to enhance and preserve the quality of the University.

As the largest higher education union in the nation, UUP is also a source for information on labor unions, state work force and bargaining issues, higher education reform, college faculty concerns and a variety of higher education topics.  UUP’s membership reflects the diversity of SUNY. Our union represents workers in more than 500 job titles, including:

  • Academic faculty
  • Student Affairs personnel
  • Librarians
  • Public Relations personnel
  • Doctors, dentists, nurses and other professionals at teaching hospitals and Health Sciences Centers
  • Graphic artists
  • Student recruitment professionals
  • Educational Opportunity Center instructors
  • Financial aid counselors
  • System Administration staff
  • Student resident hall personnel
  • Admissions counselors

Stony Brook University UUP members are represented by the Stony Brook Center Chapter of UUP (campus locales of West, South, Manhattan and Southampton campuses); Stony Brook Medical Center UUP Members are represented by the Stony Brook Health Sciences Center Chapter.