Past Events

Join us for an online discussion of a new white paper out from the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom—Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and the Legislative Attack on Higher Education, 2021–2023—which examines the well-funded political operatives and conservative think tanks behind this legislative attack on higher education.

A meeting of the AAUP's national governing council.

Please join us for a virtual discussion. Policy experts and local leaders from the AAUP and AFT will delve into how the AAUP’s policies and AFT and AAUP contract language on academic freedom and campus speech apply to the current situation, what faculty at different campuses are facing on the ground, and what our affiliates are doing to support our members and protect campus speech

A meeting of the AAUP's governing Council.

This training is designed for AAUP chapter and conference leaders and field staff interested in learning about a primary role of AAUP chapters: working for the incorporation of AAUP standards on academic freedom, tenure, and governance into the institution’s faculty handbook

A webinar on how to form an AAUP chapter and how a chapter can help you change the status quo.

Join AAUP researcher Scott Sederstrom for a discussion on recent hiring trends in US higher education.

An introduction to working with a mediator, the fact finding process, and preparing for arbitration in bargaining.

A workshop about creating a game plan for using financial data and facts to counter your administration's claims.

A workshop about proposal packaging, strategies for avoiding impasse, and mapping an endgame timeline.

A workshop about effective proposal presentation and basic tips for writing language. Participants will also discuss their most successful and challenging proposals.

A workshop about communicating bargaining priorities at the table, with members, and in media. Participants will look at platform examples and work on their own bargaining narrative.

The 2023 AAUP Summer Institute will be July 6-9 at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT.

A meeting of the AAUP's Committee A for Academic Freedom and Tenure.

A meeting of the AAUP Foundation.

Join us for a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to the winter issue of the AAUP magazine, Academe. We'll discuss how achieving racial equity in the tenured faculty ranks will require concrete changes to tenure and promotion policies that too often devalue the work of faculty members of color, how the long-term decline in tenure density threatens the future of higher education in blue and red states alike, and how the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure sought to solve the contingency crisis of the Great Depression.

We will hold an online Summer Institute with free webinars every Tuesday and Thursday between July 7 and August 4 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. EDT. Due to guidance issued by the CDC and state and local governments, we are unable to hold the in-person Summer Institute previously scheduled.