Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors, welcomes submissions of articles, review essays, and opinion columns as well as proposals for book reviews. Academe explores a wide range of topics in higher education. Our readership includes faculty members, academic professionals, and graduate students from many different disciplines, as well as academic leaders, policy makers, and media professionals involved in higher education issues and policy. Academe seeks to publish compellingly written, rigorous, salient, and original articles on the critical issues facing higher education. In addition to longer articles and review essays, Academe editors encourage submissions to Faculty Forum, our members’ opinion column. Academe editors occasionally may select articles for online publication only.
An invitation to submit an article, essay, book review, or opinion column does not guarantee publication; Academe is under no requirement to publish any submission. Submissions should not include defamatory statements or raise other significant legal concerns. Academe also discourages articles entirely devoted to specific ongoing disputes involving individuals and their institutions (such issues are handled elsewhere in the Association). Promotion or criticism of candidates running for office within the AAUP or in local, state, or national elections is not allowed.
Article Submissions
If you have a topic in mind, please propose it to Academe’s faculty editor, Cat Warren (see address below), ideally by e-mail. Your brief proposal should detail your specific qualifications to write on the topic, what your tone and approach will be, and how your article distinguishes itself from other coverage of the issue. You may also submit completed manuscripts to Cat Warren. We accept manuscripts in hard copy but highly encourage electronic submission. The editing process will require an electronic text as an e-mail attachment.
Editing: Submissions are first reviewed for content and substantive changes by Academe’s faculty editor and occasionally by a member of Academe’s advisory board. Submissions are then sent to the managing editor for final editing.
Length: We accept submissions of a variety of lengths, from 500 to up to 4,500 words.
Style: Academe follows the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.
Biographical Statement: Include a one- or two-sentence biographical statement and indicate whether you would like your e-mail address published with the statement if your submission is accepted.
Notes: If and when possible, identify cited works in the text of the article; endnotes should be kept to a minimum and are allowed only when needed citations cannot be worked into the text. Avoid bibliographies and lengthy parenthetical references.
Illustrations: If your manuscript is accepted for publication, we welcome accompanying photographs or other graphics.
Contact Information: Please submit home and office addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses at the time that copy is submitted. It is important for Academe to have these details in one place so that authors can be contacted in a timely manner.
For further information, contact Cat Warren, Faculty Editor, Academe, 1414 Norton Street, Durham, NC, 27701. (919) 682-9408. E-mail: cat_warren@ncsu.edu. You may also contact Michael Ferguson, Managing Editor, Academe, AAUP, 1133 Nineteenth Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036. (202) 737-5900. E-mail: academe@aaup.org.
Book Review Submissions
Academe does not accept unsolicited book review submissions, but proposals for book reviews can be sent to the book review editor, Kristen Renn, at renn@msu.edu. Book reviews have a 1,000-word limit.
Review copies should be sent to Michael Ferguson, Managing Editor, Academe, AAUP, 1133 Nineteenth Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036.
Opinion Column Submissions
The purpose of Academe’s Faculty Forum column is to raise important issues in the profession and to address internal and external pressures on it. The column is open to all faculty members, academic professionals, and graduate students who belong to the AAUP. Nonmembers may submit columns but will be expected to join the Association before publication.
Contributions to Faculty Forum should address issues of concern to a wide range of Academe readers, including academics from many different disciplines and others interested in higher education issues and policy. Submissions should adopt a clear point of view and be written in a lively, nontechnical style. They must maintain a collegial tone and be interesting, insightful, and original. In evaluating submissions, the editors will seek a broad representation of institutional types, regions of the country, and ranks in the profession, giving priority to voices that are often marginalized within the profession.
The Faculty Forum column has a 700-word limit. This limit will be strictly enforced, because the column must fit on a single page of the magazine. Opinion columns cannot have subheadings, endnotes, tables, or similar attributes.
Individual writers can be published in Faculty Forum once every six issues. Submit columns to academe@aaup.org.
(updated 12/09)