This organization was established August 5, 1930, at the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus by members of its faculty who felt that the integrity and quality of undergraduate and graduate education, and of the research which is essential to education, were seriously jeopardized by inaction on the part of the faculty with respect to University affairs, public and legislative affairs, conditions under which students live and work, and faculty compensation and other conditions under which the faculty work and teach. It is the aim of this organization to defend and increase the role and effectiveness of the faculty and academic staff in shaping University policy and practices concerning these important aspects of the University's purposes. This we hope to achieve through collective bargaining, and other appropriate means, building upon the concept of our vital and moral responsibility to work in concert to identify problems, not the least of which is the perpetuation of discrimination in the hiring, remuneration and promotion of minority group members and women. It is the further aim of this organization to devise, propose, and achieve implementation of the solution of these problems while protecting academic, civil, and personal freedoms of all persons in the University and society.