A new report by the AAUP's Committee on College and University Governance outlines how recent legislation marks a troubling trend toward curtailing the authority of faculty senates at state ...

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 ...

This report was prepared by a subcommittee of the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance and approved by its parent committee in September 2025. As part of the broader political assault ...

The series is cohosted by the ISA’s Academic Freedom Committee and the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. The ability to teach, research, and speak on issues of public importance ...

This presentation will discuss the faculty’s role in conditions of financial exigency and in budgetary and salary matters, as that role is defined in the AAUP’s Statement on Government of Colleges and ...

In a major ruling issued on November 14, 2025, a federal court in the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s campaign to coerce the ...

A new report published today by the AAUP and the Middle East Studies Association finds that the weaponization of civil rights law has been central to attacks on campus speech over the past two years.

On November 7, college students and workers across the country are coming together to demand college affordability, the freedom to teach, learn, and research without partisan interference, and safety ...

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Since the US Supreme Court’s infamous NLRB v. Yeshiva University decision in 1980, faculty members at private colleges and universities have confronted major roadblocks to unionization. Yeshiva labels ...

Multiple federal laws combine with existing employer policies on medical leave, family leave, and disability accommodations to mitigate impediments to academic success for faculty welcoming a new ...

What is shared governance, and why is it important? This session will discuss the fundamental principles that should shape governance at every institution of higher education in the US, as articulated ...