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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Leading Palestinian and anti-Zionist Israeli scholars in Israeli academic institutions have been silenced and harassed.

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 ...

The AAUP publishes faculty compensation survey results in the spring for the current academic year and a full report in the summer.

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 purpose of retirement plans and plans for insurance benefits for faculty members and administrators is to help educators and their families maintain their standard of living following retirement ...