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Officers

President: Paul Adams

Vice-President: Christopher Kinkade

Treasurer: Susan Nichols

Secretary: Cy Keiffer

Representatives

School of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics

Thomas Kepler
Chris Kinkade
Rachel Prokopius
Farida Sidiq

School of Liberal Arts

Megan Kerr
Marian Moore

School of Nursing & Health Professions

Melissa Downs
Sue Nichols

School of Business, Hospitality Management, & Public Safety

Mike Bento
Stephen Williams

Toledo-at-large

Cy Keiffer
Jamal Salahat

Findlay-at-large

Bob Connour

OFA Non-Faculty

Mary Miller
Jim Slosser

About AFT Higher Education

The AFT represents higher education faculty (including both full- and part-time), professional staff and graduate employees, in all sectors of higher education—public and private, two-year and four-year institutions of higher education. MORE

History of the AFT

Learn the history of the AFT, including the union's founding in Chicago in 1916, its affiliation with the AFL-CIO, its battles for workers and human rights and its continued work to uphold the proud traditions on which the union was created.

AFT Mission Statement

The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.

About the AFT

Learn more about the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers and is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO.