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Organizing for a Just and Democratic Future

By Todd Wolfson and Mia McIver
Colleges and universities in the United States are under siege, and higher education workers are the primary targets. Right-wing forces, emboldened by...

Academic Freedom, Democracy, and the Role of Faculty Unions

By Randi Weingarten
In the United States, we face an authoritarian threat unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. President Donald Trump is swiftly implementing...

Trump Is Revealing Our Higher Ed Crisis

By Jonathan Feingold and Veena Dubal
This is an introduction to a series of articles focusing on the impacts of the Trump administration's executive orders. See the full list of articles...

Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular

By Isaac Kamola
I must admit that I was surprised when Donald Trump picked Linda McMahon to serve as the secretary of education in his second presidential...

Faculty Governance and the Fight for Public Higher Education

By Karma R. Chávez
In February 2022, amid the growing onslaught of attacks in both K–12 and higher education against teaching about race and racism in US history, the...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the AAUP Redbook But Were Afraid to Ask

By Gregory F. Scholtz
Photo by AFT's Neal Thomassen The twelfth edition of the AAUP’s Policy Documents and Reports, a compendium of up-to-date versions of the Association...

Negotiating Redbook Policies

By Michael Mauer
For over five decades following its founding in 1915, the AAUP carried out its mission outside of the realm of collective bargaining. The organization...

Higher Education and the Defense of Democracy

By Patricia McGuire
In the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, a blizzard of executive orders heralded destabilizing change and potential real damage for...

Data Snapshot: Tenure and Contingency in US Higher Education, Fall 2023

By Glenn Colby
This data snapshot summarizes federal data on nonmedical instructional faculty appointments and graduate student employment. 1 The primary data source...

Data Snapshot: Tenure and Contingency in US Medical Schools, Fall 2023

By Glenn Colby
This data snapshot summarizes federal data on instructional faculty appointments and graduate student employment in US medical schools. 1 The primary...

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Spring 2025: Trump 2.0

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Fall 2024: The Status of Academic Collective Bargaining

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Spring 2024: Race and the AAUP

Winter 2024: The Higher Ed Data Juggernaut

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Book Reviews

Understanding States’ Dismantling of Higher Education

By Kevin R. McClure
Wrecked: Deinstitutionalization and Partial Defenses in State Higher Education Policy by Barrett J. Taylor. Rutgers University Press, 2022. There is...

Perspectives on Precarious Academic Labor

By Catherine L. Moran
Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene. University of Illinois Press...

Organizing to Fight Institutional Debt

By Aimee Loiselle
Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities by the Coalition Against Campus Debt. Common Notions Press, 2024. Everyone...

From the Blog

The Case for Government-Backed Science Publishing

More on Academic Unfreedom in Russia

Intellectual Freedom Case Repositories

The Bethesda Declaration

An Urgent Call to the Heads of Academia in Israel

“If you’re not using your brain as a professor, what is your job?”

Public Syllabi Means Public Opportunities

Why You Should Be Unrelentingly Hostile to AI

Open Letter from Concerned Faculty from Columbia University, Barnard College, and Teachers College

AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter Executive Committee Condemns Trump Administration’s Termination of Harvard’s SEVP Certification

Chapter Profile

Wayne Academic Union

By Kelly Hand
Faculty and academic staff members at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, formed the WSU AAUP advocacy chapter in 1930. Faculty and academic...

Column

From the Guest Editor: Higher Education in Wartime

By Henry Reichman
We live in a world at war. According to the United Nations, the current century can be characterized as “a new era of conflict and violence.” The 2024...

From the Archives

Gender Studies and the Dismantling of Critical Knowledge in Europe

By David Paternotte
In October 2018, despite a massive international outcry, the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán revoked the accreditation of the country’s two...