As public funding for higher education has declined, many state college and university systems have increasingly come to depend on revenue from campus-related nonprofit foundations. Yet faculty, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The AAUP condemns the recent abduction and assault of union activist Chris Smalls by the Israel Defense Forces.

Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House ...

On July 25, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent a letter launching an investigation into the George Mason University Faculty Senate—because faculty members dared to show support ...

This page showcases the work done by fellows while at the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. Also check out events hosted by the Center as well as fellow Don Moynihan's Substack: "Can We ...

Join Isaac Kamola, director for the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, for an overview of teaching resources on how to respond to current attacks on campuses and classrooms.

Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented ...

The AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions, calling for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working conditions, and student learning conditions as ...

A report based on data from the AAUP shared governance survey looks at faculty authority in key areas of decision-making.