The AAUP and a group of immigrant professionals today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s “Gold Card” visa program, which unlawfully sells US residency to wealthy ...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on ...

On December 13, the AAUP shared an open letter inviting faculty and supporters to add their names to the Professor Watchlist. Thousands signed in the first hours, and support continues to grow. This ...

The statement that follows is directed to governing board members, administrators, faculty members, students, and other persons in the belief that the colleges and universities of the United States ...

Freedom of expression, we are often told, is democracy’s lifeblood, the medium through which even the most contentious viewpoints can pass. Free speech, according to this view, is debate’s condition ...

In the almost thirty years since the term intersectionality was introduced, it has been taken up in a range of academic disciplines in the United States and beyond. It has even entered public ...

In October 2018, despite a massive international outcry, the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán revoked the accreditation of the country’s two master’s degree programs in gender studies. According ...

The statement that follows was originally adopted in 1966. Revisions were made and approved by the Association’s Council in 1987 and 2009. From its inception, the American Association of University ...

In a review of the literature on student evaluations of teaching (SET), Philip B. Stark and Richard Freishtat—of the University of California, Berkeley, statistics department and the Center for ...

Years ago, the process of faculty evaluation carried few or none of the sudden-death implications that characterize contemporary evaluation practices. But now, as the few to be chosen for promotion ...

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) ...

The rise of for-profit higher education has been remarkable. According to the Department of Education (DOE), between 1990 and 2010 enrollments at for-profit colleges increased by 600 percent. Nearly 2 ...