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2025 AAUP Updates

AAUP President Calls for Explanation on UNC–Chapel Hill Tenure Delay

The AAUP calls on UNC–Chapel Hill’s chancellor and board of trustees to provide a full explanation of why faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, and the Kenan-Flagler Business School did not receive tenure votes according to schedule. In...

AAUP Condemns Assault and Arrest of David Huerta

The AAUP condemns the brutal assault and illegal arrest of David Huerta, vice-president of the California Federation of Labor Unions and president of SEIU California and SEIU-USSW. Huerta’s arrest while bearing witness to the wildly cruel and destructive attacks...

Trump’s Attack on Accreditation Continues Dangerous Assault on American Higher Ed

The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses. Once again, the Trump Education Department is trampling...

Duke Must Involve Faculty In Any Layoff Decisions

When wide-ranging program cuts and terminations of faculty appointment are a possibility, AAUP standards insist that the faculty must be involved in deliberation and decisions at every stage of the process, beginning with a determination that a state of...

NYU Should Drop Disciplinary Proceedings Against Student Speaker

AAUP President Todd Wolfson sent a letter calling on the administration of NYU to grant graduate Logan Rozos’s degree without delay and end any disciplinary proceedings against him after Rozos spoke about “atrocities currently happening in Palestine” during his...

Institutions Should Support Students Under Visa Threats with Legal Aid and Housing

In response to the Trump administration's recent actions subjecting more than one thousand international students to visa revocations or other involuntary changes to their immigration status, the AAUP has written to college and university counsels to clarify...

Penn State Board Should Reject Closure Plans

The news that Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi has asked university trustees to approve closing seven of its campuses despite the fact that university finances are strong is dismaying. So is the fact that administrators arrived at this proposal without...

New Edition of the Redbook Is Available Now

Last week Johns Hopkins University Press published the twelfth edition of the AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports, informally known as the Redbook. The Redbook brings together in one convenient place AAUP policy documents and reports developed collaboratively...

Muhlenberg College Violated Academic Freedom in Dismissing Finkelstein

A new AAUP report, Academic Freedom and Tenure Muhlenberg College, concludes that the administration, in initially dismissing Dr. Maura Finkelstein, acted in violation of AAUP-supported principles and standards of academic freedom and due process. The report...

EO on Accreditation Opens the Door for Rampant Corruption and Political Interference

President Donald Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, said and done by college students and instructors. Threats to remove accreditors from their roles are transparent attempts to consolidate more...

Harvard AAUP and National AAUP Sue Trump Administration to Block Unlawful Funding Cuts

The national AAUP and our Harvard chapter filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block the Trump administration from demanding that Harvard University restrict speech and restructure its core operations or else face the cancellation of $8.7 billion in federal...

AAUP Briefs Defend an Independent Legal System, Reject Ideological Deportations

This week, the AAUP and allies filed two separate friend-of-the-court briefs. With the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, the AAUP submitted a brief supporting the law firm Perkins Coie in its battle against the Trump administration. Perkins Coie was...

2024–25 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey Results

Preliminary findings for the 2024–25 Faculty Compensation Survey are now available, featuring institution-level appendices, summary tables, and explanation of statistical data.

Attack on NEH Is Another Authoritarian Move

The Trump administration has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the...

A Win for Faculty at Nevada State University

Faculty at Nevada State University are celebrating today after winning the right to collectively bargain for a safe workplace, for faculty voice in decision-making through shared governance, and to address low and stagnant wages. The American Arbitration...