The AAUP and allies representing educators and researchers has filed a legal challenge to the recent mass termination of grants by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a move that threatens American ...

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 ...

The AAUP today released our Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25. This report presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic ...

President Trump’s travel ban—which bars citizens from twelve countries, imposes restrictions on nationals from seven others, and reportedly may be extended to an additional thirty-six countries—is ...

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 ...

In the almost thirty years since the term intersectionality was introduced, it has been taken up in a range of academic disciplines in the United States and beyond. It has even entered public ...

The AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom publishes scholarship on academic freedom and on its relation to shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining. Scholarship on academic freedom is typically ...

The AAUP is a union and membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the ...

Advancing and protecting academic freedom is the AAUP's core mission. Academic freedom is the indispensable requisite for unfettered teaching and research in institutions of higher education. As the ...

Advocates emphasize the contributions of tenure to professional excellence and the social quest for truth. They deem these common benefits more important than either the individual benefits or the ...