AAUP Updates

If the regulations developed by the ED’s Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization (AIM) negotiated rulemaking committee include a definition of academic freedom, it must be the foundational national norm established by the American Association of University...

The American Association of University Professors announced today its formal endorsement of the Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation championed by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that would enact a reasonable pause to the...

The AAUP and AFT strongly defend the academic freedom of Professor Derek Peterson and condemn the escalating campaign of political pressure and public intimidation directed at him following his remarks at the University of Michigan’s commencement ceremony.

The AAUP urges medical school institutional leaders to resist the DOJ’s demands to hand over private applicant data and prioritize student privacy and academic independence rather than capitulate to federal intimidation.

On Earth Day, the presidents of the AAUP and the AFT wrote to TIAA to request a meeting regarding TIAA’s continued investments in fossil fuel companies. Todd Wolfson and Randi Weingarten wrote that their memberships include many TIAA participants, who “are not...

The AAUP has joined a coalition challenging a new Trump executive order that seeks to undermine efforts designed to promote inclusion and help ensure equal opportunity.

Starting July 1, 2026, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty across Maryland’s four-year public universities will have the right to bargain collectively for the first time in history.

Preliminary results from the AAUP’s 2025–26 Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty fell between fall 2024 and fall 2025, ending two years of postpandemic recovery.

Instead, at a time when higher education is under constant attack, they are doing the attackers’ work for them by enthusiastically gutting their own institution.

Kentucky House Bill 490 poses a direct threat to students, faculty, high quality college education, and the prosperity of the people of Kentucky. It would allow political appointees on governing boards to fire teachers for pretextual reasons.

A new report co-released by the AAUP and the National Center provides the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how academic freedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher education.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the decision by the National Institutes of Health to strip research fellows of their right to collective bargaining.