The following Academic Unit Leaders represent university and college departments with plant pathology units. Contacts listed here are reflective of the leaders of those units and also includes, in some cases, an additional plant pathology specific representative leader if the department has designated this contact. The APS Academic Unit Leaders Forum (AULF) promotes interactions among the leaders of academic units that encompass their institutions’ plant pathology enterprise for discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing the discipline of plant pathology regionally, nationally, and internationally.