The AAUP office reopened on September 7, 2021. Contact information for all staff, including those working remotely or on a hybrid schedule, is available here.
The AAUP office reopened on September 7, 2021. Contact information for all staff, including those working remotely or on a hybrid schedule, is available here.
The AAUP has issued a response to revised Title IX regulations that the US Department of Education released on May 6. The AAUP had submitted comments in January of this year on the proposed revisions to the regulations in response to the secretary of education’s 2018 request. Those comments build on recommendations made in the AAUP's 2016 report The History, Uses, and Abuses of Title IX. On March 27, 2020, following news reports that the Department of Education would soon be issuing its new proposed Title IX regulations, the AAUP joined the attorneys general of eighteen states in calling for the Department of Education to suspend the rulemaking process for the proposed regulations during the COVID-19 crisis, but the process continued.
The AAUP response, prepared by a subcommittee of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the Committee on Gender and Sexuality in the Academic Profession, comments on some aspects of the revised regulations that represent small steps forward and others that represent large steps backward. Overarching concerns about the regulations include the following:
Read an executive summary of the AAUP's response to revised Title IX regulations.
Read the full AAUP response to revised Title IX regulations.