Among the most quietly invidious developments occur­ring in US colleges and universities over the last two years is the consolidation of the Right’s appropria­tion of the language of “institutional ...

Within academia, I’m a rare breed: a conservative Republican who twice voted for George W. Bush. I supported the invasion of Iraq, and I deeply admire Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the various eye-popping demands the Trump administration made of Harvard University in its infamous April 11, 2025, letter was the bullet point on “Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring.” ...

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 ...

College representatives typically start accreditation visits by talking to the visiting team about their institution’s culture of assessment. Too often, however, the speakers lack an understanding of ...

A new report by the AAUP's Committee on College and University Governance outlines how recent legislation marks a troubling trend toward curtailing the authority of faculty senates at state ...

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 ...