Since the US Supreme Court’s infamous NLRB v. Yeshiva University decision in 1980, faculty members at private colleges and universities have confronted major roadblocks to unionization. Yeshiva labels ...

In 2025, the size of the global executive search market will likely exceed $58 billion, and by 2030 it could approach $95 billion. This year, the United States is estimated to ac­count for about $10.3 ...

The legal office works on affirmative litigation whereby AAUP seeks to advance AAUP principles through the courts. Below is a list of case summaries; use the links to jump ahead on the page for ...

This essay discusses how the State of Indiana is reshaping academic freedom and tenure protection by the mandates enacted in Indiana’s Senate Enrolled Act no. 202 (SEA 202) and House Enrolled Act no.

Neoliberalism redefined a college education as a private good; reduced state funding for public higher education; emphasized graduation rates, postgraduation employment outcomes, and institutional ...

In many parts of the world, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, universities are confronted with the challenges of dependence on public resources within neoliberal contexts characterized by state ...

Financial activism in higher education—whether exercised through academic boycotts or donor influence—exposes persistent tensions between academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Academic boycotts ...

Welcome to the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. We believe that teaching, learning, and the pursuit of knowledge are essential to creating and sustaining multi-racial and ...

In the 1980s, my family went on expensive vacations funded by Big Pharma. Extravagant gifts were later banned by guidelines introduced by national medical associations in response to mounting evidence ...

Join us for a webinar in support of the upcoming November 7 Day of Action. As students organize for educational access and affordability, the freedom to learn, campus safety, and a better future, the ...

For more than two decades libertarian billionaires have made donations to universities to establish academic centers as part of an effort to restructure society around the notion of “individual ...

Higher education is under coordinated attack, from funding cuts and DEI bans to assaults on tenure, free speech, and the safety of international scholars and students. Our individual stories of how ...