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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 ...
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 ...
The following was originally written for activists working on Campus Equity Week, which highlights the overuse of contingent faculty positions and the exploitative labor practices inherent in these ...
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 ...
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 ...
Leading Palestinian and anti-Zionist Israeli scholars in Israeli academic institutions have been silenced and harassed.
The 2024 Biennial Association Meeting will occur on Friday, June 14, from 2pm to 5pm and on Saturday, June 15, from 9am to 5pm.
New tenure-track faculty members come into academia expecting to be able to devote substantial energy and expertise to teaching. They often find, however, that they must learn to navigate a multitude ...
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 ...
In a case in which the AAUP was a plaintiff, the court granted a preliminary nationwide injunction on key parts of a pair anti-DEI of executive orders issued by President Trump.
The AAUP, along with the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and other plaintiffs has filed a lawsuit to block Trump’s unlawful and unconstitutional DEI executive orders, ...
The ascension of J. D. Vance to the Republican presidential ticket has brought the decades-long battle to define the future of American higher education to a tipping point. With Vance, American ...