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2021 AAUP Updates

AAUP Urges Administrations to Prioritize Health and Safety as Campuses Reopen

The AAUP calls on campus administrations to do everything possible to ensure the highest level of health and safety, and to follow the guidance of public health experts to use every available tool to protect students, faculty, staff, and neighboring communities...

Unions Ask Congress to Support Higher Ed Workers

The AAUP led a coalition letter, signed by national unions with locals and chapters on college campuses, asking Congress to support higher ed workers in the American Families Plan. The letter argued that the proposed free community college plan should be...

Statement on Legislation Restricting Teaching about Race

The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent actions to ban, limit, or distort the teaching of history and related academic subjects.

New Survey Data Provides a Snapshot of Shared Governance Then and Now

The AAUP released the second report on data collected from the 2021 AAUP Shared Governance Survey, the first national survey on shared governance since 2001. Focusing on faculty roles in decision making areas at 585 randomly-sampled four-year institutions of...

Censure Removal in Jeopardy

Since censure was imposed on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2018, the AAUP has worked with the administration and faculty to remove it. Unfortunately, a proposed regents’ resolution that would prohibit “any imposition of critical race theory in [the]...

AAUP Report Highlights Need for Action on Crisis Exacerbated by Pandemic

The AAUP's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2020–21, outlines how years of unstable funding, combined with the impacts of the COVID‑19 pandemic, have created an existential threat to shared governance and academic freedom in higher...

AAUP Public Comment on Upcoming Department of Education Rulemaking

As part of their efforts to roll back harmful Trump-era regulations, the US Department of Education announced a public comment period on a wide range of student lending and educational quality topics. The AAUP is calling for reforms to Public Service Loan...

Joint Statement on Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism

At a time when the country is confronting deep-rooted racial inequity, legislators in a number of states have moved to restrict teaching about oppression, race, and gender. We strongly oppose these efforts to stifle education about racism and American history in...

AAUP Emphasizes Academic Freedom in Title IX Hearing

In testimony given at a hearing about improving enforcement of Title IX, the AAUP emphasized four elements that are essential to achieving gender equity in institutions of higher education: free speech and academic freedom, due process, faculty governance, and...

Remembering Marty Lapidus

Matthew Finkin remembers Marty Lapidus, who died on May 27 at the age of eighty.

Six Governance Sanctions and One Censure Removal

The governing Council of the AAUP voted to add Canisius College (NY), Keuka College (NY), Marian University (WI), Medaille College (NY), National University (CA), and Wittenberg University (OH) to the AAUP’s list of sanctioned institutions. The Council also...

Governance Survey Data Measure the Impact of the Pandemic

A new AAUP report on data from the first national survey about shared governance in two decades focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on governance. Analyzing the results of a questionnaire completed by faculty governance leaders, it documents both the...