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As public funding for higher education has declined, many state college and university systems have increasingly come to depend on revenue from campus-related nonprofit foundations. Yet faculty, ...
AAUP President Todd Wolfson, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram have issued statements in response to President Donald Trump’s directive requiring colleges and ...
Join members of the AAUP’s ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions for a discussion of ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), as it continues to become more ...
In July 2025, Republicans in Congress passed—and President Donald Trump signed into law—new provisions that will strip critical funding from our colleges and universities to pay for tax cuts for the ...
The AAUP condemns the recent abduction and assault of union activist Chris Smalls by the Israel Defense Forces.
This supplementary report raises questions about the dismissal of professor Teresa Buchanan from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, which has been on the AAUP’s list of censured administrations ...
Report dealing with due process, tenure, sexual harassment, and financial exigency in 2009 at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black university. The report concerns the actions taken by the ...
Academic freedom in Africa has attracted much attention recently, but few examinations of the subject have incorporated Algeria. On many occasions, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika underlined ...
Academic Freedom and Tenure: Clark Atlanta University Report discussing the declaration of an enrollment emergency by the administration of Clark Atlanta University and its subsequent action to ...
Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House ...
On July 25, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent a letter launching an investigation into the George Mason University Faculty Senate—because faculty members dared to show support ...
This 1989 report involves a Catholic University of America professor who has not been dismissed from his position but who, with conditions imposed upon his teaching that he considers unacceptable, had ...