AAUP Updates

The AAUP condemns unequivocally the recent and recurring bomb and terroristic threats against multiple HBCUs. Threats targeting HBCUs are attacks not only on individuals but on the legacy of resilience, excellence, and equity these institutions embody.

The sudden firings of faculty members this week at two Texas universities are serious violations of well-established standards and principles of academic freedom and tenure and set a dangerous new precedent for partisan interference in Texas higher education.

The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.

The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding the release of Tae Heung "Will" Kim from ICE detention.

The George Washington University chapter of the AAUP rejects the Department of Justice’s attempt to chill academic debate and crush academic freedom on the GWU campus.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram have issued statements in response to President Donald Trump’s directive requiring colleges and universities to disclose more student data to prove they aren...

The AAUP condemns the recent abduction and assault of union activist Chris Smalls by the Israel Defense Forces.

Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

On July 25, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent a letter launching an investigation into the George Mason University Faculty Senate—because faculty members dared to show support for their university president.

Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuing assault. To preserve our democracy, we have no choice.

The AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions, calling for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working conditions, and student learning conditions as advancements in AI technologies accelerate.

The new AAUP Community College Shared Governance Survey, conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, provides information about what practices prevail nationally across twenty-six areas of institutional decision-making and how...