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 accord with principles of shared governance described by the AAUP and other organizations over the course of several decades, the faculty should participate meaningfully in major decisions about ...

FAQs on Election of AAUP State Conference Officers. This provides general guidance for AAUP State Conferences on the federal and AAUP requirements governing nominations and electi ...

The statement that follows was adopted by the Council of the American Association of University Professors in October 1970. In April 1990, the Council adopted several changes in language that had been ...

The Israeli military onslaught in Gaza, increasingly framed as a genocide by leading scholars, UN human rights experts, and human rights organizations, has triggered a new round of clampdowns in ...

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 ...

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.

When academically qualified people do not have the financial resources needed to enroll and succeed in college, higher education fails to fulfill the promise of promoting social mobility—and may ...

Published January 2024. The following statement was approved for online publication by the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance. Political interference in US higher education ...

Professors have long assigned to their students works of which they were the author. The practice ranges from assigning commercially published textbooks they have written to having students buy a ...

Tenure was not designed as a merit badge for research-intensive faculty. . . . Tenure was conceived as a right rather than a privilege. —AAUP, Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments, 2010 The 1940 ...

Published June 2023. This year’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession examines the economic conditions of the academy in a year that has seen both the World Health Organization and ...