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.

General Guidance

• FAQs on AAUP Principles and Standards for the COVID-19 Crisis
• Contingent Faculty and the Global Pandemic
• AFT and AAUP Principles for Higher Education Response to COVID-19

Campus Opening

• Guidance for Campus Operation During the Pandemic
• Campus Reopening: Guidelines, Challenges, and the Faculty Voice (recorded webinar)

Remote Teaching

• Remote Teaching and Its Impact on Intellectual Property (recorded webinar)
• FAQs on Remote Teaching and Copyright

Shared Governance, Bargaining, and Decision Making

• Principles of Academic Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Statement on COVID-19 and the Faculty Role in Decision-Making
• Impact Bargaining during the COVID-19 Crisis (for union chapters)
• COVID-19 Chapter Toolkit (for union chapters)
• Bargaining in Times of Economic Uncertainty (recorded webinar for union members)
• Shared Governance During a Crisis (recorded webinar)

Financial Crisis

• Financial Crisis FAQs
• Financial Exigency and Program Elimination During the COVID-19 Pandemic (recorded webinar)
  Fighting Back against Austerity (recorded webinar)

More Pandemic Resources

• COVID-19 Response Fund (for advocacy and union chapters)
• Feature Articles from Academe, Magazine of the AAUP
• Information from US Government Agencies and the World Health Organization
• AAUP National, Chapter, and State Conference Actions
• Resources from Other Organizations  
• Recorded webinars from the 2020 Summer Institute Online