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The AAUP condemns the brutal assault and illegal arrest of David Huerta, vice-president of the California Federation of Labor Unions and president of SEIU California and SEIU-USSW. Huerta’s arrest ...
The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses.
The AAUP calls on UNC–Chapel Hill’s chancellor and board of trustees to provide a full explanation of why faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, and the Kenan-Flagler Business ...
What you can do to test your readiness for unionization and to lay the groundwork for a successful effort, plus an outline of ...
The pandemic brings new urgency to the need to support the success of all faculty, especially women who are caregivers.
As the faculty’s role in governance comes under growing attack, AAUP members in Texas and elsewhere are mobilizing to defend ...
There is one book that, as a higher education scholar, I routinely recommend to colleagues seeking to better understand how ...
The AAUP's legal office responds to inquiries on higher education law from professors, academic administrators, attorneys, ...
The AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure promotes standards of academic freedom, tenure, and due process in higher education through the development of policy documents and reports ...
Intellectual property (IP) at colleges and universities refers most importantly to the products of faculty, staff, and student research and scholarship. IP falls into two groups—work covered by patent ...
In 2023, the US Department of Education announced new activity concerning OPMs, including new guidance on third-party ...
The AAUP publishes faculty compensation survey results in the spring for the current academic year and a full report in the summer.