All AAUP Policies & Reports

This 2013 statement responds to recent massive closings of academic programs that are basic to a college or university’s curriculum, with a resulting erosion in the number and the authority of the tenured faculty.

This statement, revised in 2012, argues that because the scope and character of library resources should be taken into account in such important academic decisions as curricular planning and faculty appointments, librarians should have a voice in the development of the institution’s educational policy.

This 2012 statement reviews the scope of the sexual harassment on campus, the frequently disappointing evidence about current campus practices and preparedness, the legal issues at stake, and giving special attention to faculty responsibilities.

This 2012 statement about the serious and continuing problem of sexual assault on campus reviews the scope of the problem, cites the frequently disappointing evidence about current campus practices and preparedness, analyzes the legal issues at stake, and gives special attention to faculty responsibilities.

This 2012 report concerning Northwestern State University and Southeastern Louisiana University finds administrators discontinued or consolidated academic programs and arbitrarily selected certain tenured professors in the programs for termination of appointment.

This 2014 book-length report offers general advice on basic faculty intellectual property rights; mechanisms to ensure academic freedom in publishing; handling faculty and administrator conflicts of interest; and grievance procedures for faculty members, academic professionals, and students.

Report finding that administrators at two Louisiana universities used program discontinuances as an excuse to get rid of selected tenured faculty members.

This 2012 report supplements the 1993 report on Savannah College of Art and Design following attempts by the SCAD administration to begin the censure removal process. In setting restrictive conditions on a potential investigating committee about academic freedom, the administration "ironically provided abundant evidence that the current climate at SCAD for academic freedom is sorely deficient."

This 2011 report concerns violations of academic freedom in two cases at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The first case, affecting a nontenured associate professor in his seventeenth year of full-time service on the faculty, tested the relationship between freedom of research and publication and freedom of extramural utterance in a politically charged atmosphere. The second case, affecting a tenured full professor in her thirty-first year on the faculty, tested the freedom of a classroom teacher to assign student grades.

This 2011 report, prepared by the Association’s staff, concerns the decision by the Idaho State Board of Education to suspend the operation and bylaws of the faculty senate at Idaho State University and to direct ISU president Arthur C. Vailas to “implement an interim faculty advisory structure.”

This 2011 report concerns the action taken in summer 2007 by the board of trustees and the administration of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to suspend the faculty senate and replace it with a “transitional structure of faculty governance.” The report analyzes the administration’s rationale for suspending the senate and the ways in which its substitute for faculty governance departs from applicable AAUP-supported standards.

This 2011 report deals with due process, tenure, sexual harassment, and financial exigency in 2009 at Bethune-Cookman University, an HBCU. The report concerns the actions taken by the administration to suspend and then dismiss four professors, two with tenure, without having demonstrated cause for its actions in hearings before faculty peers. The report also deals with the administration's actions to terminate the appointments of three other professors without advance notice.