All AAUP Policies & Reports

This 1980 statement offers new propositions, consistent with Association principles, to address some of the continuing problems concerning part-time faculty members related to status, role, rights and privi­leges, and responsibilities.

This 1980 report concerns the administration of Nichols College's dismissal of a faculty member prior to the expiration of his term of appointment, without providing him with the basic safeguards of academic due process.

This 1978 statement endorses allowing prior service to count toward probationary period, with input from the relevant faculty committee on the precise terms and conditions.

This 1977 report concerns retrenchments at the State University of New York that were initiated by the University administration without appropriate consultation with the faculty and without any showing of a financial exigency. They were overseen by the administration with disregard for the rights of tenure, for due notice, and for the role of the faculty in institutional government.

This 1975 report concerns the administration of Murray State University's 1975 termination of the services of nine faculty members who had attained tenure without due process and in disregard of the role of faculty in reaching decisions of faculty status.

This 1975 statement outlines proper teaching evaluation methods and their appropriate uses in personnel decisions. This statement confines itself to the teaching responsibilities of college and university professors and is not intended as the definitive statement on reviewing and weighing all aspects of a faculty member’s work.

This 1975 report regards the administration of Concordia Seminary's 1972 termination of a faculty member based on outside ecclesiastical authorities' displeasure with his views on matters that fell within his academic competence, despite the recommendations of his colleagues and inadequate notice of the termination of his services.

This 1973 report discusses why tenure quotas are generally unwise. The report includes reasons for this opposition to quotas and identifies situations in which there is small prospect for significant growth of the faculty and other considerations may merit attention.

This 1971 statement urges the discontinuance of anti-nepotism policies and practices, and the rescinding of laws and institutional regulations that perpetuate them. The report finds that such policies and practices subject faculty members to an automatic decision on a basis wholly unrelated to academic qualifications and limit them unfairly in their opportunity to practice their profession.

This 1971 report, last revised in 1978, discusses the role of faculty and best practices in determining where reductions should be made in times of financial exigency. Its guidelines present ten policies and considerations that emphasize meaningful faculty involvement.

This 1970 statement, revised in 1990, addresses the ethical responsibilities that go along with academic freedom in the interests of reasoned inquiry. Especially in a repressive atmosphere, the faculty’s responsibility to defend its freedoms cannot be separated from its responsibility to uphold those freedoms by its own actions.

This 1969 statement sets forth guidelines for determining an equitable faculty workload and defines recommended maximum teaching loads for various types of institutions, as well as for part-time faculty members.