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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of the Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities. The statement was jointly formulated by the AAUP, the American Council on ...
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for ...
These issues are not new. About five years ago, states began to propose and enact legislation that seeks to restrict what faculty can discuss in the classroom. Many of these bills focused on banning ...
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 ...
Even Plato is subject to political screening in Texas. Earlier this year, Texas A&M University administrators ordered a philosophy professor to remove selected readings from Plato’s Symposium ...
In May 2025, the Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 37, abolishing the existing faculty senates and academic councils at every public institution of higher education in the state. This law came into ...
Many institutions of higher education announce their diversity with a peculiar confidence. They publish brochures replete with faces of many hues, issue annual reports tallying demographic percentages ...
In the United States today, scholar-teachers are experiencing a well-coordinated, well-funded, and government-backed campaign to disrupt their ability to educate and produce knowledge without fear of ...