There is one book that, as a higher education scholar, I routinely recommend to colleagues seeking to better understand how ...

The AAUP calls on UNC–Chapel Hill’s chancellor and board of trustees to provide a full explanation of why faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, and the Kenan-Flagler Business ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses.

This report provides a statistical analysis of the presence of AAUP-recommended policies on academic freedom, dismissal for cause, financial exigency, and program discontinuance in faculty handbooks ...

A university president’s imposition of corporate culture to usher in drastic institutional change is an assault on faculty participation in governance.

The author of the report was Professor David Fellman, who, after his term as chair of Committee A, served as president of the AAUP (1964-66). In his report, Professor Fellman vividly explains why ...

Intellectual property (IP) at colleges and universities refers most importantly to the products of faculty, staff, and student research and scholarship. IP falls into two groups—work covered by patent ...

This frank admission, followed by an even franker vagueness, seems the university line these days among those campuses holding classes and opening dorms during a pandemic. Yes, some students and staff ...

For information on how to submit a request for amicus assistance, please read about the amicus curiae brief application process. In accord with the AAUP’s principles and litigation priorities, our ...

A bureaucratic approach to diversity issues in higher education, combined with the ebbing of faculty power and status, is shaping how marginalized academics imagine themselves and their professional ...

The AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure promotes standards of academic freedom, tenure, and due process in higher education through the development of policy documents and reports ...

As we look toward a postpandemic future, we must work to create a university that can repair both the devastating wounds inflicted on society under finance capitalism and the internal rifts that have ...