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California AAUP conference members

Publications & Research

The AAUP produces a variety of publications of interest to higher education professionals.

Redbook Cover Widely regarded as an authoritative source on sound academic practice, the AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports, also known as the Redbook, contains the Association's major policy statements.
All AAUP members receive a subscription to Academe magazine, which contains higher education news, opinion pieces, official Association business, book reviews, feature articles, and the AAUP's annual survey of faculty compensation. Academe Cover


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

Members also receive electronic newsletters to update them on key AAUP activities (if you are a member, are not receiving electronic newsletters, and would like to, let us know.)Nonmembers may also sign up for AAUP newsletters.

We offer guidebooks on topics such as salary equity, pregnancy discrimination, the Family and Medical Leave Act, navigating faculty appointments, and faculty handbooks as enforceable contracts.

The AAUP research program tracks trends in higher education and produces reports on topics including faculty compensation, gender equity, and contingent faculty.

The AAUP Bulletin brings together in one volume the previous academic year’s academic freedom and tenure and governance investigative reports, standing committee and ad hoc subcommittee reports, new policy documents and revisions to previously published documents, and selected annual reports of the Association and other relevant business materials.

Guidebook on Faculty Handbooks

Each year, the AAUP fields inquiries about what legal role a faculty handbook might play in resolving employment questions and larger questions about an administration’s actions. In response to these inquiries, we have developed a state-by-state guide to the legal treatment of handbooks. This guide is intended to be a quick reference for professors, administrators, and lawyers. The guide has previously been available for sale; this year, in a time of financial and employment uncertainty, we are pleased to offer it as a free download. (11/09)