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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

Winter 2025: Higher Education in Wartime

Fall 2024: The Status of Academic Collective Bargaining

Summer 2024: Bulletin

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...

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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...

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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...

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From the Blog

On the Electoral Tactics of the American Historical Association

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Trump’s State of Exception

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What a Federal Court Brief Can Teach Us About How to Defend Higher Ed

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ADL Fuels Islamophobia and Betrays Its Civil Rights Mission

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The Case for Government-Backed Science Publishing

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More on Academic Unfreedom in Russia

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Intellectual Freedom Case Repositories

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The Bethesda Declaration

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An Urgent Call to the Heads of Academia in Israel

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

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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...

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Column

From the Editor: Saving Higher Ed from Tyranny

By Michael Ferguson

Patricia McGuire, in her contribution to the online edition of this issue, succinctly describes the stakes of the second Trump administration’s...

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From the Archives

Knowledge for the Common Good

By Joan W. Scott

I want to begin with the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the document that codified the principles and practices of...

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