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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The academic profession and academic work have changed significantly in the last three decades. These changes are a consequence of external pressures and structural changes in public higher education ...

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 ...

Data collection for the AAUP’s 2020–21 Faculty Compensation Survey concluded in March, with 929 US colleges and universities providing employment data for nearly 380,000 full-time faculty members as ...

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 ...

Reports and policy documents issued by the AAUP are published throughout the year on the AAUP website. The Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors brings together in one volume ...

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 ...

When faculty members consider copyright in the digital age, it is often in relation to things we can’t (or shouldn’t) do. For example, we can’t have too much material placed in online reserve, we ...