Today, the AAUP announced a slate of twelve national political endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. The endorsed candidates for Senate and congressional races will champion higher education as ...

In a decision arising from a lawsuit brought by the AAUP, the AAUP’s chapter at the University of Maryland College Park, and several other nonprofits, a court limited Trump’s executive order, ...

The White House Office of Management and Budget's new 412-page proposal to transfer core decisions on federal research funding from qualified scientific experts to political appointees weaponizes the ...

In the last year, AAUP and AFT members have successfully lobbied Congress to protect science research funding; fought back against the Trump Compact—and won!; organized and turned out for No Kings and ...

Last year, at dozens of colleges and universities across the United States, students protested institutional unresponsiveness to pervasive issues of racial inequity. Most media attention ...

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This is the typical response from faculty members and administrators who are asked how much undergraduate students should work at paying jobs while attending college. Available research supports this ...

Sound Tactics: Auditory Power in Political Protests by Justin Eckstein. Penn State University Press, 2025. Sound has always been an integral part of political protests. In the United States, ...

More than fifteen years ago, higher education scholar Robert Birnbaum wrote his influential book Management Fads in Higher Education: Where They Come from, What They Do, Why They Fail, arguing that ...

This article is part of a series, "Expanding Union Rights in Public Higher Education." In June 2024, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the latest in a series of University of Wisconsin ...

I am a constitutional lawyer by trade, and I have written on more than one occasion about the intricacies and nuances of freedom of expression. I have also, over a long career, seen the tensions that ...

One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable by David Gooblar. Harvard University Press, 2025. Although I have been learning about best teaching practices for more than ...