Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Due Process

Recommendations on stabilizing the faculty infrastructure by converting contingent faculty positions to the tenure track.

Report on practical and legal issues involving faculty members with disabilities; it reaffirms faculty members' entitlement to due process.

Local institutional review boards, which make decisions about the permissibility of research, often have no special competence; the AAUP recommends improvements. Read the newly released final version of this report.

A  brief overview of the principles and the law shaping faculty and student claims to academic freedom and free speech in the college and university classroom and a consideration of issues of so-called “political discrimination” in the judicial and legislative fora, such as those asserted in the Academic Bill of Rights. Originally delivered as a conference presentation.