Everyday actions by department chairs and other tenured and tenure-track faculty can build solidarity and faculty power.

Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of ...

American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire by Jane S. Smith. Rutgers University Press, 2025. A Blacklist ...

The AAUP condemns unequivocally the recent and recurring bomb and terroristic threats against multiple HBCUs. Threats targeting HBCUs are attacks not only on individuals but on the legacy of ...

Henry Reichman is professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay, a former AAUP vice president, and a ...

The sudden firings of faculty members this week at two Texas universities are serious violations of well-established standards and principles of academic freedom and tenure and set a dangerous new ...

I have written many small internal grants. Initially, it was only one every couple of years, for special activities like ...

This article is part of an online supplement to the fall 2022 special issue of Academe, which focused on the theme of “revolutionizing higher education budget and finance.” State funding for higher ...

AAUP members are invited to join the AAUP and PARCEO for the release of a new report on Title VI and a training on antisemitism.

Warnings about the decline of the liberal arts are ubiquitous these days, but they are hardly new. Jacques Barzun, the renowned scholar and dean at Columbia University, pronounced the liberal arts ...

The following statement, prepared by a subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved by Committee A in October 2019 and adopted by the AAUP's Council in ...

In June 1967, a committee composed of representatives from the American Association of University Professors, the United States National Student Association (now the United States Student Association) ...