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 ...

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

One of the closest observers of the Salaita case details the role of the media in the unfolding of the struggle.

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 ...

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 ...

Statement discussing communication between faculties and governing boards in colleges and universities and urging increased faculty-board communication.

This special report addresses disregard for norms of academic governance in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at eight institutions.

At a time when the country is confronting deep-rooted racial inequity, legislators in a number of states have moved to restrict teaching about oppression, race, and gender. We strongly oppose these ...

In fall 2014, the AAUP’s Committee on Teaching, Research, and Publication conducted a survey to gather information about how colleges and universities evaluate teaching and use the results. The ...

Years ago, the process of faculty evaluation carried few or none of the sudden-death implications that characterize contemporary evaluation practices. But now, as the few to be chosen for promotion ...

The structures of faculty governance, however, as well as AAUP policies on the subject, tend to assume a faculty that is primarily full time and on the tenure track. The participation in institutional ...

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 ...