The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on the AAUP's list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry ...

The abrupt cancellation of NSF grants damages critical research in American higher education and has repercussions far beyond academia.

In accord with principles of shared governance described by the AAUP and other organizations over the course of several decades, the faculty should participate meaningfully in major decisions about ...

FAQs on Election of AAUP State Conference Officers. This provides general guidance for AAUP State Conferences on the federal and AAUP requirements governing nominations and electi ...

This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25, presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic trends related to US higher ...

The following statement, prepared by a subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved by Committee A in October 2019 and adopted by the AAUP's Council in ...

The following statement was approved for online publication by the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance. Political interference in US higher education has reached an alarming ...

This is the typical response from faculty members and administrators who are asked how much undergraduate students should work at paying jobs while attending college. Available research supports this ...

Published June 2023. This year’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession examines the economic conditions of the academy in a year that has seen both the World Health Organization and ...

Donna R. Euben, AAUP Counsel* July 2005. The 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, jointly authored by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the ...

Tenure—the right to continuous employment, which may be terminated only for adequate cause or under conditions of bona fide financial exigency or of a bona fide department or program discontinuance ...

Colleges and universities properly aspire to excellence in teaching. Institutional aspirations, however, have not often led to practices that clearly identify and reward teaching excellence, and the ...