The AAUP’s Committee on Technology and Higher Education has released commentary warning that the Trump administration’s recently announced science initiative threatens to fundamentally alter the ...

The tenure system is a ubiquitous feature of American higher education. Of the roughly 1,400 four-year institutions that the Carnegie Classification system categorizes as bachelor’s, master’s, or ...

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 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 ...

In this essay, we show that the retaliatory firings in academia following Charlie Kirk’s assassination based on private social media posts are unsurprising, given what was already well established in ...

In this essay I describe my role as plaintiff in Idaho Federation of Teachers v. Labrador. This lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of Idaho’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act, which criminalized ...

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 ...

The political assault on nearly all aspects of the US research funding infrastructure since the start of the second Trump administration has had the higher education community reeling. Over the past ...

This collection of vignettes is an answer to a collective call from faculty members across the US South facing intensifying attacks on academic freedom. Following a February 2026 cross-state ...

Higher education in the United States is currently being targeted by a diverse number of right-wing forces who have highjacked political power and have waged a focused campaign to undermine the ...

This essay showcases Equity Week, a national interdisciplinary initiative linking academic inquiry, public policy advocacy, and cultural expression to advance equity and justice. Held in Washington, ...

In this essay, the authors document the work of the Sanctuary Campus Network, a network of over fourteen hundred campus workers formed in late 2024 to create a mechanism of mutual aid and support for ...