AAUP Updates

The AAUP has joined several national unions and labor organizations, including AFSCME, AFT, CWA, HELU, NEA, OPEIU, SEIU, UAW, and Unite Here, in issuing a Statement of Unity calling on Kamala Harris to ensure a renewed federal investment in higher education.

As an apparent reaction to student protests since last October, a number of college and university administrations have hastily enacted overly restrictive policies dealing with the rights to assemble and protest on campus. These policies, which go beyond...

AAUP president Todd Wolfson sent a letter to University of California president Michael Drake urging the administration to settle a fair contract with UC system librarians represented by University Council-AFT (UC-AFT), unit 17.

The AAUP has released a new Statement on Academic Boycotts, which reconsiders the AAUP's prior categorical opposition to academic boycotts set forth in the 2006 report On Academic Boycotts. The AAUP's revised policy maintains that academic boycotts are not in...

The ascension of J. D. Vance to the Republican presidential ticket has brought the decades-long battle to define the future of American higher education to a tipping point. With Vance, American Far-Right authoritarians have succeeded in elevating a fascist who...

New analysis identifies areas where the Department of Education’s final Title IX regulations advance equity goals and where they fall short.

The AAUP has joined 227 organizations signing onto a letter urging the US Department of Education to release its hardship proposal on student debt relief in order to ease the financial burdens faced by student borrows and their families. The Department of...

The AAUP has joined other education organizations in endorsing the bicameral Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act of 2024, which would nearly double the maximum amount afforded to recipients and ensure greater access to higher ed for working families and...

The report describes key institutional finance trends in US higher education and documents the ongoing shift in the makeup of the academic workforce from mostly full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty members to mostly faculty members holding contingent...

Delegates to the AAUP's Biennial Association Meeting voted today for new officers and two at-large members of the AAUP's governing Council. A warm welcome to incoming president Todd Wolfson, vice president Rotua Lumbantobing, secretary-treasurer Danielle Aubert...

Today, the AAUP’s newly created Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom announced the appointments of fifteen fellows who will examine the evolving threats to academic freedom and institutional autonomy in American higher education over the next two years.

The AAUP is pleased to announce this year’s awards recipients ahead of their official recognition at the 2024 AAUP Conference and Biennial Meeting. The Outstanding Achievement Award will be presented to Kent Ervin (University of Nevada, Reno). The Georgina M...