2024 AAUP Updates

06.29.2023 | Higher Ed Community Must Protect Equity in Education

The Supreme Court has struck a significant blow to long-standing efforts of universities to ensure that students of all races have equal access to higher education. It now falls to the higher education community to protect what we value: ensuring access to higher education for all students, promoting equity in education, and fostering vibrant university campuses characterized by the freedom to learn, teach, and conduct research.

06.28.2023 | New Interim Director for AAUP

After ten years as executive director of the AAUP, Julie Schmid will begin a new position with the American Federation of Teachers in July. Current deputy executive director Nancy Long will step into the role of interim executive director. 

06.23.2023 | Florida’s "Stop WOKE" Act Sabotages Higher Ed

Today, the AAUP filed an amicus brief in support of Florida faculty who are challenging the state’s “Stop WOKE” Act. That law, passed in 2022, prohibits professors at Florida’s public universities from expressing certain disfavored viewpoints while teaching on topics including racial and sexual discrimination and injustice. The AAUP’s brief argues that the law violates the First Amendment and threatens to destroy academic freedom, sabotage higher education, and undermine democracy.

06.16.2023 | Miami University Librarians Win Union, Join Faculty Alliance of Miami

Librarians at Miami University have voted unanimously to join the Faculty Alliance of Miami, an affiliate of the AAUP and the American Federation of Teachers. The new union will include more than thirty librarians.

06.14.2023 | AAUP Reports Third Consecutive Year of Faculty Wages Falling Short of Inflation

The AAUP's 2022–23 Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, released today, finds that real average salaries have declined by 2.4 percent after adjusting for inflation, making this the third consecutive year that wage growth has fallen short of inflation. 

05.24.2023 | Florida Higher Ed Faces an Ideologically Driven Assault Unparalleled in US History

An AAUP special committee established to review the apparent pattern of politically, racially, and ideologically motivated attacks on public higher education in Florida has released a preliminary report concluding that academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance in Florida’s public colleges and universities currently face a politically and ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history. If sustained, this onslaught threatens the very survival of meaningful higher education in the state, with dire implications for the entire country.

05.22.2023 | Report Finds Hamline Violated Academic Freedom

A new report concludes that the administration of Hamline University violated the academic freedom of Professor Erika López Prater by failing to renew her teaching appointment as a result of her use of images of the Prophet Muhammad during an art history course. The committee of inquiry found that Professor López Prater's decision to display the images was not only justifiable and appropriate on scholarly and pedagogical grounds but also protected by academic freedom.

05.17.2023 | Faculty Union Victory at Miami University

More than 800 faculty members at Miami University in Ohio officially have a union today after the State Employment Labor Relations Board certified that an overwhelming majority of faculty cast ballots in favor of forming a new chapter of the American Association of University Professors/American Federation of Teachers.

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