The AAUP has been protecting the rights of faculty and other higher education professionals for over ninety years. Through assistance and advice to individual faculty members and administrators, state and federal lobbying, amicus briefs before the courts, support for collective bargaining, and other means, the AAUP helps shape American higher education and ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.
More than a thousand faculty members call on AAUP each year for advice and assistance. The Association works with Congress and state legislators to promote effective higher education legislation, and helps our members to do the same. College presidents and administrators rely on Association-developed policy statements and procedural guidelines.
The AAUP works to protect all members of the profession: full-and part-time teachers; tenured and contingent faculty; graduate students, librarians, and academic professionals; union members and non-union-members.