The abrupt cancellation of NSF grants damages critical research in American higher education and has repercussions far beyond academia.

The AAUP today released our Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25. This report presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic ...

Those being excluded from the US will doubtless include faculty and students who seek to travel here to conduct academic work. Their exclusion is at odds with fundamental AAUP principles and with our ...

The AAUP condemns the brutal assault and illegal arrest of David Huerta, vice-president of the California Federation of Labor Unions and president of SEIU California and SEIU-USSW. Huerta’s arrest ...

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In the almost thirty years since the term intersectionality was introduced, it has been taken up in a range of academic disciplines in the United States and beyond. It has even entered public ...

The AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom publishes scholarship on academic freedom and on its relation to shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining. Scholarship on academic freedom is typically ...

Advancing and protecting academic freedom is the AAUP's core mission. Academic freedom is the indispensable requisite for unfettered teaching and research in institutions of higher education. As the ...

The AAUP is a union and membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the ...

Their common characteristic is that institutions make little or no long-term commitment to faculty holding these positions. Today, a large proportion of faculty appointments are part-time. Both ...

The AAUP is committed to fighting systemic racism and pursuing racial justice and equity in colleges and universities, in keeping with the Association’s mission to ensure higher education’s ...

The submissions deadline has now passed, and a new call for papers will be issued in the fall along with this year's volume. The AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom invites submissions for the 2025 ...