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2022 AAUP Updates

2023 Appropriations Package Encouraging

The package contains increased funding for Pell Grants, research infrastructure at HBCUs and minority serving institutions, and other programs that help students, as well as critical funding for the National Labor Relations Board.

AAUP Calls on President Biden to Continue to Protect Student Borrowers

Debt relief for so many is on hold during the appeal of the latest court decision. It is only fair that repayments be on hold during this time, too.

Widening Antisemitism Definition May Lead to Narrowing Education

The AAUP warns of potential academic freedom consequences regarding the Department of Education's proposed expansion of a definition of antisemitism under Title VI to encompass political criticisms of the state of Israel.

Department of Education Announces New Regulations

The AAUP welcomes continued efforts to streamline PSLF and improve college and loan-forgiveness access.

The AAUP Launches Investigation into Emporia State University Mass Layoffs

The AAUP has authorized an investigation into the Emporia State University administration’s extraordinary summary dismissal of thirty-three faculty members, most of them long-serving professors with tenure. The process by which these termination decisions were...

Florida's Stop WOKE Act Must Be Rejected by the Court

AAUP president Irene Mulvey condemns the recent filing by lawyers for the state of Florida defending the "Stope WOKE Act" and emphasizes that it is educational gag orders like this that are the real threat to American higher education and must be rejected by the...

AAUP Urges Reversal of Summary Dismissals at Emporia State University

The Association regards the process by which the termination decisions were reached to be “illegitimate and the terminations themselves to be summary dismissals” in violation of widely accepted principles of academic freedom and tenure.

University of Idaho Should Rescind Guidance on Speech about Abortion

The new guidance appears to be an overreaction by the administration to changes in state law, and calls into question the administration's commitment to academic freedom.

Comments on Proposed Changes to Title IX

While the AAUP commends several aspects of the ED’s proposed regulations, including clarification that Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, we urge the ED to further amend provisions of the proposed regulations to...

Investigation at Indiana University Northwest

The AAUP has opened an investigation at Indiana University Northwest, focused on the IUN administration’s summary dismissal last fall of Professor Mark McPhail, a tenured professor of communication who had been initially appointed as the institution’s chief...

Debt Forgiveness A Hard-Fought First Step

President Biden’s long awaited announcement of a plan to alleviate the student debt of roughly twenty million Americans should be celebrated. The data on student debt makes it clear that people of color, especially women of color, are most heavily burdened. For...

AAUP and AFT Support Proposed Changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

The AAUP submitted joint comments with the American Federation of Teachers to the US Department of Education on Tuesday in support of the proposed changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and to encourage the department to do far better in...

AAUP Concludes Historic 2022 Conference and Biennial Meeting

The conference took place June 16 to 19, and featured remarks by AFT president Randi Weingarten, US Department of Education under secretary for higher education James Kvaal, and secretary of education Miguel Cardona. Delegates to the Biennial Association Meeting...

AAUP Report Documents the Largest Decrease in Real Wages on Record

The AAUP's 2021–22 Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, released today, finds that real wages for full-time faculty members decreased 5.0 percent after adjusting for inflation, the largest one-year decrease on record since the AAUP began...

AAUP Will Affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers

The historic partnership will strengthen both organizations and advance American higher education. The AFT and AAUP have a history of collaboration and joint organizing, including dual AAUP/AFT affiliates currently representing more than 20,000 faculty and staff...