In March 1962, at the invitation of a subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor, AAUP president Ralph Fuchs testified on "Association action and experience in relation to racial ...

This report seeks to understand the context and content of the “campus free-speech” movement, to track its influence within state legislatures, and to draw some conclusions concerning the best ways to ...

The legal office works on affirmative litigation whereby AAUP seeks to advance AAUP principles through the courts. Following is information on our cases. Challenge to the Trump Administration’s ...

The new AAUP Community College Shared Governance Survey, conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, provides information about what practices prevail nationally ...

The AAUP provides many policy statements that can be helpful in articulating the importance of academic freedom in faculty meetings, collective bargaining negotiations, public statements, and other ...

The 2024 Biennial Association Meeting will occur on Friday, June 14, from 2pm to 5pm and on Saturday, June 15, from 9am to 5pm.

Leading Palestinian and anti-Zionist Israeli scholars in Israeli academic institutions have been silenced and harassed.

The following was originally written for activists working on Campus Equity Week, which highlights the overuse of contingent faculty positions and the exploitative labor practices inherent in these ...

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 ...

The purpose of retirement plans and plans for insurance benefits for faculty members and administrators is to help educators and their families maintain their standard of living following retirement ...

Tenure was not designed as a merit badge for research-intensive faculty. . . . Tenure was conceived as a right rather than a privilege. Before the Great Depression, academic tenure, understood as a ...