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 ...

I. Introduction From its initial statement of principles in 1915 and its earliest investigations into violations of academic freedom, the American Association of University Pro­fessors has emphasized ...

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 ...

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

Can better evaluation make a difference?Years ago, the process of faculty evaluation carried few or none of the sudden-death implications that characterize contemporary evaluation practices. But now, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I could not have come in to graduate school more motivated to be a research-oriented professor. Now I feel that can only be a career possibility if I am willing to sacrifice having children. A Bad ...

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 ...

This statement was prepared by the Association’s Committee on Teaching, Research, and Publication. It was adopted by the Association’s Council in June 1975 and endorsed by the Sixty- First Annual ...

The open-access movement has been around for more than a dozen years. It started with three ambitious proclamations made in the early 2000s following meetings in Berlin, Bethesda, and Budapest. Now, ...