Report examining the costs to academic freedom incurred by the current trend toward overreliance on part- and full-time non-tenure-track faculty. The report recommends that for the good of ...

When the American Association of University Professors was founded in January 1915, higher education bore little resemblance to the system that exists in this country today. The degrees awarded each ...

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 ...

This report has been superseded by the publication in 2024 of a new Statement on Academic Boycotts. In spring 2005, the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, in response to a ...

Advertisements have appeared in the campus press by an organization, "Students for Academic Freedom," calling on students to report professors who try to "impose their political opinions" in the ...

In recent years, American institutions of higher education have begun closing programs that should be part of any serious educational institution’s curricular portfolio and have been implementing ...

This statement was approved in May 1994 by the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance (Committee T). In June 1994 it was approved by Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure ...

The statement that follows was adopted by the Council of the American Association of University Professors in October 1970. In April 1990, the Council adopted several changes in language that had been ...

Background: The following report was issued in June 2016 and discusses implementation of Title IX to that date, along with making recommendations. A number of developments have occurred since this ...

This statement was approved by the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance, adopted by the Association’s Council in May 1972, and endorsed by the Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting. In ...

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

The AAUP today released our Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25. This report presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic ...