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 ...

The AAUP's annual Bulletin collects in one place the reports, policy statements, and official AAUP business materials of an academic year—in this case, 2024–25. Most of these documents have already ...

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.

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 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 1989 report involves a Catholic University of America professor who has not been dismissed from his position but who, with conditions imposed upon his teaching that he considers unacceptable, had ...

Report examining the move last year by the administration of the University of Northern Iowa to discontinue nearly one-fifth of the university’s academic programs and close the university’s laboratory ...

"This is not enforcement—it is intimidation," said Dr. Todd Wolfson, president of the AAUP, in a strongly worded statement condemning the federal probe. "If the Department of Justice can investigate ...