The new AAUP Community College Shared Governance Survey, conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, provides information about what practices prevail nationally ...

A review of "The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom" by Steve Batterson, reviewed by Joan W. Scott.

This report seeks to understand the context and content of the “campus free-speech” movement, to track its influence within state legislatures, and to draw some conclusions concerning the best ways to ...

Keeping track of these issues, both for yourself and for the people you work with, helps the entire office space feel less alienating.

This page provides a short overview of the common challenges that academic workers face when they seek unionization. It then describes the special legal and ideological challenges that some faculty ...

In March 1962, at the invitation of a subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor, AAUP president Ralph Fuchs testified on "Association action and experience in relation to racial ...

The 2024 Biennial Association Meeting will occur on Friday, June 14, from 2pm to 5pm and on Saturday, June 15, from 9am to 5pm.

The AAUP provides many policy statements that can be helpful in articulating the importance of academic freedom in faculty meetings, collective bargaining negotiations, public statements, and other ...

The legal office works on affirmative litigation whereby AAUP seeks to advance AAUP principles through the courts. Following is information on our cases. Challenge to the Trump Administration’s ...

The National AAUP stands with the University of Virginia Chapter of the AAUP, the Virginia AAUP Conference, and the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in condemning the Department of Justice’s ...

The following report, approved in June 1999 by the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was adopted that month by the Council and endorsed by the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting. The ...

This subcommittee has been asked to comment on a category of full-time non-tenure-track faculty appointments known as "professors of practice." While appointments to these positions and similarly ...