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Spring 2025: Trump 2.0

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Volume 111, Number 2

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Features

Organizing for a Just and Democratic Future

By Todd Wolfson and Mia McIver

Academic Freedom, Democracy, and the Role of Faculty Unions

By Randi Weingarten

Trump Is Revealing Our Higher Ed Crisis

By Jonathan Feingold and Veena Dubal

The Assault on Federal Grants

By Samuel Bagenstos

The Assault on Transgender Students

By Alexander Chen and Dallas Estes

The Assault on Noncitizens

By Sarah Sherman-Stokes

The Assault on DEI

By Jeremiah Chin

The Assault on Campus Protests

By Sameer Ashar

Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular

By Isaac Kamola

Faculty Governance and the Fight for Public Higher Education

By Karma R. Chávez

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

By Gregory F. Scholtz

Negotiating Redbook Policies

By Michael Mauer

Higher Education and the Defense of Democracy

By Patricia McGuire

Online Only

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

By Glenn Colby

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

By Glenn Colby

Book Reviews

Understanding States’ Dismantling of Higher Education

By Kevin R. McClure

Perspectives on Precarious Academic Labor

By Catherine L. Moran

Organizing to Fight Institutional Debt

By Aimee Loiselle

Columns

From the Editor: Saving Higher Ed from Tyranny

By Michael Ferguson

Nota Bene

AAUP Mobilizes Against Trump 2.0

By Kelly Hand

2024–25 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey Results

By Glenn Colby

Inquiry at Muhlenberg

By Anita Levy

Statement on Institutional Neutrality

By Anita Levy

Statement on Attacks on Disciplinary Knowledge

By Anita Levy

Faculty Alliance of Miami Wins First Contract

By Monica Owens

Ohio University Faculty Vote “Union Yes!”

By Monica Owens

Faculty Celebrate Union Win at Nevada State University

By Gwendolyn Bradley

Remembering Jeffrey A. Butts

By Gregory F. Scholtz

AAUP Business

Developments Relating to Association Censure