This data snapshot summarizes the most recent federal data on women and people of color holding nonmedical instructional faculty appointments in US higher education. The data source is the Integrated ...

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit Texas AAUP-AFT et al.  v. Creighton et al. filed a motion for a preliminary injunction, asking the court to immediately halt enforcement of university policies that restrict ...

“Students and families just feel like they’ve been with a wrecking ball when it comes to college,” Senator Ron Wyden admitted to a group of Oregon high schoolers in January 2016. The Democrat insisted ...

Today, the AAUP and its Texas affiliate, Texas AAUP-AFT, sued Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the board of regents over two system memoranda (the Creighton ...

The legal office works on affirmative litigation whereby AAUP seeks to advance AAUP principles through the courts. Below is a list of case summaries; use the links to jump ahead on the page for ...

The AAUP, AFT Connecticut, and the national AFT call on Yale University to reject any negotiated settlement that would ...

Doctoral education in Europe has been undergoing a major transformation in the last decade. This transformation has occurred in response to several challenges: the changing nature of the labor market ...

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 ...

Being a scholar in a country that invaded its neighbor can be an odd, even dangerous experience. In such a setting, the ideal of academic freedom can seem oxymoronic. Yet, strangely enough, academic ...

On August 6, 2014, as I was preparing to check news accounts about the solemn, annual remembrance of the Hiroshima bombing, I came across a “breaking” story from Inside Higher Ed: the University of ...