The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on its list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry regarding ...

Report examining the costs to academic freedom incurred by the current trend toward overreliance on part- and full-time non-tenure-track faculty. The report recommends that for the good of ...

When the American Association of University Professors was founded in January 1915, higher education bore little resemblance to the system that exists in this country today. The degrees awarded each ...

The following statement, prepared by a subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved by Committee A in October 2019 and adopted by the AAUP's Council in ...

With the growing prevalence of massive open online courses (MOOCs), anyone with an Internet connection can gain access to college-level instruction. Organizations such as GCFLearnFree, Coursera, and ...

The AAUP issued a statement in September expressing concern about a letter from the US Department of Education regarding the Duke–UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies. The letter sets a dangerous ...

This report has been superseded by the publication in 2024 of a new Statement on Academic Boycotts. In spring 2005, the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, in response to a ...

Advertisements have appeared in the campus press by an organization, "Students for Academic Freedom," calling on students to report professors who try to "impose their political opinions" in the ...

In recent years, American institutions of higher education have begun closing programs that should be part of any serious educational institution’s curricular portfolio and have been implementing ...

This statement was prepared by a subcommittee of the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure was and approved for publication by that committee. The comment period ended on December ...

Educational gag orders—bills targeting teaching about race and racism, including critical race theory (CRT)—are already on the 2022 legislative agenda in a handful of states. Such “anti-CRT” bills aim ...

Rudy Fichtenbaum, professor of economics at Wright State University, has been elected AAUP president. Fichtenbaum has authored more than forty-five articles and book chapters on topics such as ...