While state legislature and US Congress offices differ in many ways, there are some common practices that can help AAUP members with their advocacy visits at the state and federal levels.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Among the various eye-popping demands the Trump administration made of Harvard University in its infamous April 11, 2025, letter was the bullet point on “Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring.” ...

This report summarizes National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data on patterns of faculty appointments and graduate student employment in US higher education from fall 1987 through fall 2021, ...

The AAUP condemns the shocking murder of Charlie Kirk and all violent acts committed on college and university campuses. We issued the following response to actions taken in the aftermath of the ...

In the almost thirty years since the term intersectionality was introduced, it has been taken up in a range of academic disciplines in the United States and beyond. It has even entered public ...

Warnings about the decline of the liberal arts are ubiquitous these days, but they are hardly new. Jacques Barzun, the renowned scholar and dean at Columbia University, pronounced the liberal arts ...

For more than a century, the AAUP has conducted or sponsored national shared governance surveys. Each of these surveys has provided a snapshot of the state of shared governance at the time it was ...

The report that follows was approved for publication by the Association’s Committee on Government Relations. Claiming that free speech is “dying” on American campuses, a conservative think tank has ...

I recently finished a particularly disturbing semester of teaching that was filled with instances of student incivility, intimidation, and entitlement. In searching for information that could help me ...