For decades, the AAUP’s faculty salary surveys and compensation reports have been authoritative sources of information about the economic status of the profession.
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For decades, the AAUP’s faculty salary surveys and compensation reports have been authoritative sources of information about the economic status of the profession.
The AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey is the only survey of its kind to include extensive information on benefits as well as salary. This collaboration provides access to the most up-to-date data available on salary and benefits for the 2014–2015 academic year.
"For generations the tenure system has protected the freedom of faculty members to engage in research that challenges hallowed verities and opens up innovative possibilities," says Henry Reichman, chair of the AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure. "Nowhere is such freedom more critical than in medicine."
A recent court decision from Arizona affirms the AAUP’s continuing support for the academic freedom rights of faculty members engaged in research by contesting intrusive public records requests.
The AAUP recently signed on to public comments that seek to allow faculty members to access and use copyrighted audiovisual materials more easily.
The administration of NYU has maintained that its Abu Dhabi campus will observe the AAUP’s principles on academic freedom and that all faculty and students will be free to enter and leave the country without undue restriction. Professor Ross’s experience raises considerable doubt about these claims.
It is AAUP practice to share confidential preliminary drafts of investigative reports with key parties, including the administration of the institution under investigation. The purpose is to solicit comments and corrections so the final report will be as fair and accurate as possible. MD Anderson has taken the unusual step of releasing such a report to the media.
The AAUP urges University of Wisconsin System president Ray Cross and the chancellors of the UW System institutions to stand in opposition to Governor Walker’s proposal to transform the University of Wisconsin System into a public authority.