The following scholarly and educational organizations have endorsed the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, which was jointly issued by the AAUP and the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and which forms the basis of many institutions' policies.
(This is list is arranged chronologically. You can also see a list of endorsers arranged alphabetically or by discipline.)
Association of American Colleges and Universities 1941
American Association of University Professors 1941
American Library Association (adapted for librarians) 1946
Association of American Law Schools 1946
American Political Science Association 1947
American Association for Higher Education, 1950
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 1950
Eastern Psychological Association 1950
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology 1953
American Psychological Association 1961
American Historical Association 1961
Modern Language Association 1962
American Economic Association 1962
Agricultural and Applied Economic Association 1962
Midwest Sociological Society 1963
Organization of American Historians 1963
American Philological Association 1963
American Council of Learned Societies 1963
American Sociological Association 1963
Southern Historical Association 1963
American Studies Association 1963
Association of American Geographers 1963
Southern Economic Association 1963
Classical Association of the Middle West and South 1964
Southwestern Social Science Association 1964
Archaeological Institute of America 1964
Southern Management Association 1964
American Theatre Association 1964
South Central Modern Language Association 1964
Southwestern Philosophical Society 1964
Council of Independent Colleges 1965
Mathematical Association of America 1965
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 1965
American Risk and Insurance Association 1965
Academy of Management 1965
American Catholic Historical Association 1966
American Catholic Philosophical Association 1966
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 1966
Western History Association 1966
Mountain-Plains Philosophical Conference 1966
Society of American Archivists 1966
Southeastern Psychological Association 1966
Southern States Communication Association 1966
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 1967
American Mathematical Society 1967
College Theology Society 1967
Council on Social Work Education 1967
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy 1967
American Academy of Religion 1967
Association for the Sociology of Religion 1967
American Society of Journalism School Administrators 1967
John Dewey Society 1967
South Atlantic Modern Language Association 1967
American Finance Association 1967
Association for Social Economics 1967
Phi Beta Kappa Society 1968
Society of Christian Ethics 1968
American Association of Teachers of French 1968
Eastern Finance Association 1968
American Association for Chinese Studies 1968
American Society of Plant Physiologists 1968
University Film and Video Association 1968
American Dialect Society 1968
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 1968
Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists 1968
College English Association 1968
National College Physical Education Association for Men 1969
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association 1969
History of Education Society 1969
Council for Philosophical Studies 1969
American Musicological Society 1969
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 1969
Texas Community College Teachers Association 1970
College Art Association of America 1970
Society of Professors of Education 1970
American Anthropological Association 1970
Association of Theological Schools 1970
Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication1971
American Business Law Association 1971
Americans for the Arts 1972
New York State Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges 1972
College Language Association 1973
Pennsylvania Historical Association 1973
Massachusetts Regional Community College Faculty Association 1973
American Philosophical Association*** 1974
*** Endorsed by the Association’s Western Division in 1952, Eastern Division in 1953, and Pacific Division in 1962.
American Classical League 1974
American Comparative Literature Association 1974
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 1974
Society of Architectural Historians 1975
American Statistical Association 1975
American Folklore Society 1975
Association for Asian Studies 1975
Linguistic Society of America 1975
African Studies Association 1975
American Institute of Biological Sciences 1975
North American Conference on British Studies 1975
Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference 1975
Texas Association of College Teachers 1976
Association for Jewish Studies 1976
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 1976
Western States Communication Association 1976
Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 1977
Metaphysical Society of America 1977
American Chemical Society 1977
Texas Library Association 1977
American Society for Legal History 1977
Iowa Higher Education Association 1977
American Physical Therapy Association 1979
North Central Sociological Association 1980
Dante Society of America 1980
Association for Communication Administration 1981
National Communication Association 1981
American Association of Physics Teachers 1982
Middle East Studies Association 1982
National Education Association 1985
American Institute of Chemists 1985
American Association of Teachers of German 1985
American Association of Teachers of Italian 1985
American Association for Applied Linguistics 1986
Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies1986
American Association for Cancer Education 1986
American Society of Church History 1986
Oral History Association 1987
Society for French Historical Studies 1987
History of Science Society 1987
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists 1988
American Association for Clinical Chemistry 1988
Council for Chemical Research 1988
Association for the Study of Higher Education 1988
Association for Psychological Science 1989
University and College Labor Education Association 1989
Society for Neuroscience 1989
Renaissance Society of America 1989
Society of Biblical Literature 1989
National Science Teachers Association 1989
Medieval Academy of America 1990
American Society of Agronomy 1990
Crop Science Society of America 1990
Soil Science Society of America 1990
International Society of Prostistologists1990
Society for Ethnomusicology 1990
American Association of Physicists in Medicine 1990
Animal Behavior Society 1990
Illinois Community College Faculty Association 1990
American Society for Theatre Research 1990
National Council of Teachers of English 1991
Latin American Studies Association 1992
Society for Cinema and Media Studies 1992
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1992
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences 1992
American Society for Aesthetics 1992
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies 1994
American Council of Teachers of Russian 1994
Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages 1994
American Association of Teachers of Arabic 1994
Association of Teachers of Japanese 1994
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges 1996
National Council for the Social Studies, 1996
Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders 1996
Association for Women in Mathematics 1997
Philosophy of Time Society 1998
World Communication Association 1999
The Historical Society 1999
Association for Theatre in Higher Education 1999
National Association for Ethnic Studies 1999
Association of Ancient Historians 1999
American Culture Association 1999
American Conference for Irish Studies 1999
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World 1999
Eastern Communication Association 1999
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States 1999
American Association for the History of Medicine 2000
Missouri Association of Faculty Senates 2000
Association for Symbolic Logic, 2000
American Society of Criminology, 2001
American Jewish Historical Society, 2001
New England Historical Association 2001
Group for the Use of Psychology in History, 2001
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2001
Society for German-American Studies, 2001
Society for Historians of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, 2001
Eastern Sociological Society, 2001
Chinese Historians in the United States, 2001
Community College Humanities Association 2002
Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2002
Society for Early Modern Catholic Studies 2002
Academic Senate of the California State University 2004
Agricultural History Society 2004
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education 2005
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 2005
Society for the Study of Social Biology 2005
Society for the Study of Social Problems 2005
Association of Black Sociologists 2005
Dictionary Society of North America 2005
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies 2005
Society for Armenian Studies 2006
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study 2006
American Physiological Society 2006
National Women's Studies Association 2006
National Coalition for History 2006
Society for Military History 2006
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2006
Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas 2006
Society of Dance History Scholars 2006
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics 2006
National Council on Public History 2006
College Forum of the National Council of Teachers of English 2006
Society for Music Theory 2006
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2006
Law and Society Association 2006
Society for Applied Anthropology 2006
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2006
American Society of Plant Taxonomists 2006
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) 2006
German Studies Association 2006
Association of College and Research Libraries 2007
Czechoslovak Studies Association 2007
American Educational Studies Association 2007
Southeastern Women's Studies Association, 2009
(updated 3/11)