There is one book that, as a higher education scholar, I routinely recommend to colleagues seeking to better understand how ...

Incorporating AAUP policy language into collective bargaining agreements strengthens protections for academic freedom and ...

As the faculty’s role in governance comes under growing attack, AAUP members in Texas and elsewhere are mobilizing to defend ...

The challenges we face in the second Trump administration require new ways of talking about the value of higher education and ...

About 26 percent of faculty members held full-time tenured or tenure-track appointments in fall 2023, compared with about 39 ...

About 32 percent of faculty members in US colleges and universities held full-time tenured or tenure-track appointments in ...

The AAUP calls on UNC–Chapel Hill’s chancellor and board of trustees to provide a full explanation of why faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, and the Kenan-Flagler Business ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses.

A university president’s imposition of corporate culture to usher in drastic institutional change is an assault on faculty participation in governance.

Faculty members and academic staff at Wayne State University voted to form a union in 1972, and the combined bargaining unit mobilized to win a new contract in 2024.

The author of the report was Professor David Fellman, who, after his term as chair of Committee A, served as president of the AAUP (1964-66). In his report, Professor Fellman vividly explains why ...

We live in a world at war. According to the United Nations, the current century can be characterized as “a new era of conflict and violence.” The 2024 Global Peace Index lists fifty-six distinct ...