A proposal to establish a new regional accrediting body—the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE)—has sparked growing concern among faculty members and academic organizations in several states ...

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 ...

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

The AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey (FCS) was established in 1958 and is the largest independent source of data on both full- and part-time faculty salaries and fringe benefits. The survey ...

The following statement on Kentucky House Bill 490 was issued today by AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten: Kentucky House Bill 490 poses a direct threat to students, ...

For more than a century, the AAUP has conducted or sponsored national shared governance surveys. Each of these surveys has provided a snapshot of the state of shared governance at the time it was ...

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 ...

This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25, presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic trends related to US higher ...

I am a constitutional lawyer by trade, and I have written on more than one occasion about the intricacies and nuances of freedom of expression. I have also, over a long career, seen the tensions that ...

This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey. The report also describes key institutional finance trends in ...

The statement that follows is directed to governing board members, administrators, faculty members, students, and other persons in the belief that the colleges and universities of the United States ...

The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom by Steve Batterson. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023. It feels odd to be writing a review of ...