2024 AAUP Updates

11.01.2022 | Department of Education Announces New Regulations

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

10.19.2022 | 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 made – without any meaningful faculty participation and without affording the affected faculty members academic due process – appears illegitimate and the terminations themselves appear to involve severe violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom and tenure.

10.13.2022 | 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 court.

09.30.2022 | 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.

09.29.2022 | 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.

09.13.2022 | 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 better enact Title IX’s broad equity goals for higher education.

08.29.2022 | 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 academic officer.

08.26.2022 | 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 three quarters of Black borrowers, the student loan balance they owe today is greater than the original balance. It is hard to imagine this kind of injustice going unaddressed if it were directed at a white population. The AAUP will continue to push for more actions and policies that alleviate student debt in ways that move us towards a more just and equitable society. 

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