Rutgers faculty members, citing philosophical concerns and errors, push back against the use of corporate software "Academic Analytics" to evaluate their productivity. “I think in everybody in academia has an interest in collective and individual measures of productivity, but these are very blunt forms of measurement,” said David Hughes, a professor of anthropology and president of Rutgers’ AAUP-AFT union chapter.

AAUP issued a report on the University of Iowa's presidential search. “[T]he board constructed the process in an attempt to preclude any meaningful faculty role in the selection of the final candidate. At that sole but crucial point, the board treated the faculty as irrelevant,” the authors wrote.

Despite protest and disapproval from the Eastern Michigan University community, the Board of Regents chose to postpone a vote on its involvement with the Education Achievement Authority (EAA), ensuring the partnership will last through most of 2016. EMU-AAUP president Howard Bunsis posited the board may act differently if members were elected by voters, rather than appointed by the governor.