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 ...

In accord with principles of shared governance described by the AAUP and other organizations over the course of several decades, the faculty should participate meaningfully in major decisions about ...

In the early 1930s, the University of Pittsburgh found itself in a period of increasing uncertainty about what academic freedom meant. The previous decade had been a time of strenuous struggle between ...

Professors have long assigned to their students works of which they were the author. The practice ranges from assigning commercially published textbooks they have written to having students buy a ...

Executive Summary. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Garcetti v.Ceballos (2006), 1 the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure formed a subcommittee to examine the potential impact of ...

The following report, approved in June 1999 by the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was adopted that month by the Council and endorsed by the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting. The ...

Back in School: How Student Parents Are Transforming College and Family by A. Fiona Pearson.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019. Scholars in the social sciences have devoted increasing ...

Listen to more about current topics with our podcast, titled "Academic Freedom on the Line."The special podcast series of AAUP Presents will explore what we're really defending when we defend academic ...

The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on the AAUP's list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry ...

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The AAUP has established a fund to support chapters that have incurred unexpected expenses because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Response Fund will make grants of up to $15,000 available to ...

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 ...