AAUP President Todd Wolfson, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram have issued statements in response to President Donald Trump’s directive requiring colleges and ...

In July 2025, Republicans in Congress passed—and President Donald Trump signed into law—new provisions that will strip critical funding from our colleges and universities to pay for tax cuts for the ...

As public funding for higher education has declined, many state college and university systems have increasingly come to depend on revenue from campus-related nonprofit foundations. Yet faculty, ...

Report examining evidentiary issues of proof of discrimination and providing guidance on handling complaints raising claims of discrimination.

The following resolution was passed by the AAUP national Council in 2011. Both higher education in general and the AAUP specifically stand at a crossroads. Assaults on collective bargaining, the ...

The AAUP is a union and membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the ...

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A toolkit to address legislative interference, typically at the state level, with free speech on campus. Conservative claims that free speech is at risk of disappearing from college campuses have ...

The results of the 2024 election for new officers and two at-large members of the AAUP's governing Council can be found here.

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Assurances of academic freedom rights, however, can be meaningless without enforceable job security and due process provisions to protect faculty from retaliation for exercising that freedom.

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