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 ...

In accord with principles of shared governance described by the AAUP and other organizations over the course of several decades, the faculty should participate meaningfully in major decisions about ...

FAQs on Election of AAUP State Conference Officers. This provides general guidance for AAUP State Conferences on the federal and AAUP requirements governing nominations and electi ...

The statement that follows was adopted by the Council of the American Association of University Professors in October 1970. In April 1990, the Council adopted several changes in language that had been ...

The Israeli military onslaught in Gaza, increasingly framed as a genocide by leading scholars, UN human rights experts, and human rights organizations, has triggered a new round of clampdowns in ...

Since its founding in 1915, the AAUP has been actively engaged in developing standards for sound academic practice and in working for their acceptance throughout the commu­nity of higher education.

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 ...

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 ...

Published June 2023. This year’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession examines the economic conditions of the academy in a year that has seen both the World Health Organization and ...

Tenure was not designed as a merit badge for research-intensive faculty. . . . Tenure was conceived as a right rather than a privilege. —AAUP, Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments, 2010 The 1940 ...

We were saddened to learn of the death of longtime AAUP leader John T. McNay this past Friday, October 27. John was active in the University of Cincinnati chapter, a former president of the Ohio state ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in Perry v. Sindermann recognized that " [a] teacher . . . who has held his position for a number of years, might be able to show from the circumstances of this service--and ...