For decades, there have been significant labor issues around the use of technology in higher education. Now, the uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic ...

Freedom of expression, we are often told, is democracy’s lifeblood, the medium through which even the most contentious viewpoints can pass. Free speech, according to this view, is debate’s condition ...

The AAUP urges medical school institutional leaders to resist the DOJ’s demands to hand over private applicant data and prioritize student privacy and academic independence rather than capitulate to ...

April 22, 2026 — Today the AAUP sent the following letter to administrators at Stanford, Ohio State, and UC San Diego urging institutional leaders to prioritize student privacy and academic ...

The racially charged recordings of Donald Sterling, then owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, were addressed publicly by NBA commissioner Adam Silver in April 2014, prior to an NBA ...

The AAUP has joined a coalition challenging a new Trump executive order that seeks to undermine efforts designed to promote inclusion and help ensure equal opportunity.

This is the typical response from faculty members and administrators who are asked how much undergraduate students should work at paying jobs while attending college. Available research supports this ...

Learn what's new at the AAUP by subscribing to our RSS feed. You will get a notification when we post a news item.

On Saturday, the governing Council of the AAUP voted to remove the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from the Association’s list of censured administrations, and to add Illinois Wesleyan University to ...

In a historic wall-to-wall labor union lawsuit led by the AAUP, the US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction that will stop the Trump-Vance ...

Last week Johns Hopkins University Press published the twelfth edition of the AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports, informally known as the Redbook. The previous edition, the eleventh, was published in ...