The National AAUP stands with the University of Virginia Chapter of the AAUP, the Virginia AAUP Conference, and the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in condemning the Department of Justice’s ...

This revised report brings up to date and expands upon the Association’s 2004 report on the same topic, while affirming the earlier report’s basic principles. Academic freedom, free inquiry, and ...

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 ...

When the American Association of University Professors was founded in January 1915, higher education bore little resemblance to the system that exists in this country today. The degrees awarded each ...

Since its founding in 1915, the AAUP has been actively engaged in developing standards for sound academic practice and in working for their acceptance throughout the commu­nity of higher education.

The AAUP and allies representing educators and researchers has filed a legal challenge to the recent mass termination of grants by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a move that threatens American ...

The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on the AAUP's list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry ...

In fall 2014, the AAUP’s Committee on Teaching, Research, and Publication conducted a survey to gather information about how colleges and universities evaluate teaching and use the results. The ...

Since 2015, when Governor Scott Walker signed a budget bill that cut $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system, there has been much criticism of the law’s dilution of tenure but less said ...

There is no justice in following unjust laws,” wrote the computer programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of twenty-six on January 11, 2013. “It’s time to come ...

General Principles The purpose of this statement is to define the role of the faculty in decisions as to the allocation of financial resources according to the principle of shared authority set forth ...

The following summarizes a report prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and of the Committee on Women in the Academic Profession. The report ...