AAUP President Todd Wolfson, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram have issued statements in response to President Donald Trump’s directive requiring colleges and ...

The AAUP's annual Bulletin collects in one place the reports, policy statements, and official AAUP business materials of an ...

In July 2025, Republicans in Congress passed—and President Donald Trump signed into law—new provisions that will strip critical funding from our colleges and universities to pay for tax cuts for the ...

Report examining the costs to academic freedom incurred by the current trend toward overreliance on part- and full-time non-tenure-track faculty. The report recommends that for the good of ...

The AAUP and allies representing educators and researchers has filed a legal challenge to the recent mass termination of grants by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a move that threatens American ...

The AAUP today released our Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25. This report presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic ...

The creation of the AAUP was preceded by work undertaken in 1914 by the Joint Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, also known as the “committee of nine.” This committee, which included three ...

This statement advances an impassioned argument for the importance of expert knowledge and the institutions of higher education that produce and transmit it.

Procedures to follow if a chapter or a conference acts in conflict with the principles of the Association or contrary to the legitimate interests of a particular faculty member or group of faculty ...

Advocates emphasize the contributions of tenure to professional excellence and the social quest for truth. They deem these common benefits more important than either the individual benefits or the ...

Ladan Rahbari explores the interventions by the Iranian regime in knowledge production, academic freedom, and the lives of academics since 1979, focusing on academics in Iranian universities and in ...