Academe

The current attack on higher education is part of a broader assault on labor, public goods, and democracy itself.

The challenges we face in the second Trump administration require new ways of talking about the value of higher education and academic freedom.

Legal experts weigh in on the implications of the president’s executive orders.

A manufactured moral panic has created the conditions for Trump to radically remake public education.

As the faculty’s role in governance comes under growing attack, AAUP members in Texas and elsewhere are mobilizing to defend this bulwark of academic freedom.

The AAUP policy documents collected in the Redbook are more important than ever at a time when higher education is under attack.

Incorporating AAUP policy language into collective bargaining agreements strengthens protections for academic freedom and faculty governance and may aid in the resistance to escalating political attacks.

Colleges and universities must confront the ideology of ignorance.

Federal figures on nonmedical instructional faculty and graduate student employment.

Federal figures on medical instructional faculty and graduate student employment.