Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Due Process

This 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. An appendix provides language appropriate for inclusion in faculty handbooks and collective bargaining agreements.

Recommendations on stabilizing the faculty infrastructure by converting contingent faculty positions to the tenure track.

Report examining the potential impact on academic governance of the Supreme Court Garcetti v. Ceballos decision. It recommends actions to be taken in both public and private colleges and universities to preserve academic freedom in governance even in the face of judicial hostility or indifference.

A report discussing academic boycotts and relevant AAUP policies, and making recommendations.

Report analyzing AAUP policy on the suspension of faculty members from teaching or research.

Report assessing arguments made in support of recent legislative efforts to regulate classroom instruction.

2006 report addressing aspects of the federal government’s regulations for research on human subjects that constitute a threat to academic freedom.

Report addressing a category of full-time non-tenure-track faculty appointments known as “professors of practice.” It recommends, in accordance with Association principles, that these faculty members be accorded tenure's protections.

The AAUP clarifies that the group "Students for Academic Freedom," which purports to rely on AAUP principles concerning controversial subject matter, in fact goes well beyond the AAUP's statements and is inimical to academic freedom and the very idea of liberal education.

Report discussing the Academic Bill of Rights at its potential impact on academic freedom.