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 ...

Today, the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure issued a new report, On Title VI, Discrimination, and Academic Freedom, that addresses the issue of discrimination in higher education and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The AAUP condemns the shocking murder of Charlie Kirk and all violent acts committed on college and university campuses. We issued the following response to actions taken in the aftermath of the ...

In a landmark ruling, a federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian ...

The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, ...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement today. The Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in ...

A new joint statement out today from the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and Committee on College and University Governance discusses how the Trump administration and many state ...