COVID-19 Pandemic Resources

The AAUP is closely monitoring the COVID-19 crisis in higher education and will continue to update this page as new resources become available. Please write to smink@aaup.org to suggest resources for this page or to share news of your chapter’s actions.

AAUP Statements and Guidance

• AAUP Principles and Standards for the COVID-19 Crisis
• Principles of Academic Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Contingent Faculty and the Global Pandemic
• Financial Crisis FAQs
• Guidance for Campus Operation During the Pandemic
• AFT and AAUP Principles for Higher Education Response to COVID-19
• Impact Bargaining during the COVID-19 Crisis (for union chapters)
• COVID-19 Chapter Toolkit (for union chapters)
• Statement on COVID-19 and the Faculty Role in Decision-Making
• Statement of Solidarity with Medical Faculty
• Statement of Solidarity with Essential Workers

AAUP Member Webinars

• 2020 Summer Institute Online
• Remote Teaching and Its Impact on Intellectual Property
• Financial Exigency and Program Elimination
• Bargaining in Times of Economic Uncertainty (for union members)
• Shared Governance in Perilous Times

AAUP National, Chapter, and State Conference Actions

• AAUP Launches a COVID-19 Governance Investigation
• "Community Information Share: The New School's Financial Sitation" analysis video (AAUP-TNS)
• "Management in Place of Leadership: Report on COVID-19 Campus Response Survey" (NYS AAUP Conference)
• Open letter to the Georgia Southern community regarding COVID-19 spread concerns  (GSU-AAUP)
• Statement on reopening Ohio University during an uncontrolled pandemic (OU-AAUP)
• Protest line from CUNY HQ to the Cuomo's office to protest state budget cuts & planned layoffs of thousands of adjunct faculty and part-time staff (PSC-CUNY)
• YouTube message and petition from medical and health science faculty (AAUP-BHSNJ)
• Union newsletter with important adjunct and COVID-19 info (CSU-AAUP)
• Proposal for temporary work-sharing to avoid layoffs (Rutgers AAUP-AFT)
• Plan to hold administrations accountable for utilization of federal funding (Rutgers AAUP-AFT)
• Decision-making information requests (Rider AAUP)
• Chapter statements on university policies (AAUP-OSU; UIC United Faculty)
• FAQs and messages to faculty (URI AAUP; UConn-AAUP)
• Morale boosters and affirmations (URI AAUP)
• Maintaining campaigns on Zoom + social media (Rutgers AAUP-AFT)
• Read more in the spring issue of Academe and on the Academe Blog.

Other AAUP Resources

Feature Articles from Academe, Magazine of the AAUP

Opinions expressed in Academe’s contributed feature articles and reviews are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the policies of the AAUP.

• Reflections on Faculty Life in a Pandemic. By Various Authors. Fall 2020.
• The Necroliberal University. By Benjamin Balthaser and Bill V. Mullen. Fall 2020.
• COVID-19, Academic Mothers, and Opportunities for the Academy. By Mary A. Hermann and Cheryl Neale-McFall. Fall 2020.
• For a Reparative University. By Michael Meranze. Fall 2020.
• A Marshall Plan for Rebuilding Higher Education. By Jeffrey Sommers, Mark Blyth, James Galbraith, and Luz Sosa. Fall 2020.

From Our Organizing Partner, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

• Guidance for Local Higher Education Leaders on Information Requests and Requests to Bargain
• Solidarity Academy: Academic Workers United for Pandemic Defense and Collective Power (includes seminars on unemployment insurance and contingent academics, higher-ed federal updates, and organizing in a crisis)
• Higher Education Funding and the Impact of Coronavirus (webinar cosponsored by the AAUP)
• AFT Adjunct-Contingent Faculty Caucus (ACC) Statement on Protecting Part-Time Faculty from the Backlash of COVID-19
• Unemployment Insurance and the Contingent Academic FAQ
• A Plan to Safely Reopen America's Schools and Communities

Other Faculty Resources

• Statement on Equity and COVID-19 (Tenure for the Common Good)
• The Uncertainties of Higher Ed in the Age of COVID-19 (webinar by the African American Intellectual History Society in collaboration with the AAUP)
• Crowdsourced Online Teaching Advice, Platforms, Websites, Blogs, and Assignments (Judith Miller, Emory History Dept.)
• "Humanizing Online Teaching" (Mary Raygoza, Raina León, and Aaminah Norris—Saint Mary's)
• Crowdsourced Remote Teaching Resources by Institution (Daniel Stanford—DePaul University)
  Expression and Engagement During COVID-19 (National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement)
• PEN America Webinars (online hate and harassment, privacy and public health, and more)
• Supporting Equity for Disabled Students (Association for Higher Education and Disability)

Resources from Other Organizations

• Considerations for Reopening Institutions of Higher Education in the COVID-19 Era (ACHA)
• "CARES Act" Higher Education Relief Fund: Simulated Distribution of Amounts (NASFAA)
• Resources for College Health Professionals, Including Webinars (ACHA)
• CHEA- and USDE-Recognized Accreditors and COVID-19 Information
• Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (University of Minnesota)
• Guidance for Reopening Schools and Education Institutions (Education International)

US Government Resources

• Department of Education (DOE)
  •  Information for Accrediting Agencies Regarding Temporary Flexibilities Provided to Coronavirus Impacted Institutions or Accrediting Agencies
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Resources for Higher Education
  • CDC Activities and Initiatives Supporting the COVID-19 Response and the President’s Plan for Opening America Up Again 
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Department of State
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  • Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act
  • What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws
• Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS)

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