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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. The AAUP’s recent statement The Inclusion in Governance of Faculty Members Holding Contingent Appointments emphasizes that “‘faculty’ should be defined inclusively rather than exclusively; faculty ...

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 ...

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 ...

The following statement was approved for online publication by the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance. Political interference in US higher education has reached an alarming ...

Comments. I found the report most interesting. A more complete assessment of equal interest to me would be to tease out to provide a more extensive account on the barriers faced by graduate students ...

If we think about higher education over the next thirty years, roughly 2021–50, what change would we like to see? What would a desirable and transformative higher education system look like? When I ...

The abrupt cancellation of NSF grants damages critical research in American higher education and has repercussions far beyond academia.

Colleges and universities properly aspire to excellence in teaching. Institutional aspirations, however, have not often led to practices that clearly identify and reward teaching excellence, and the ...

Advocates of open access tell only one side of the story, ignoring the exploitative practices and poor quality of many open-access journals. The open-access movement has been around for more than a ...