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Academic Freedom, Democracy, and the Role of Faculty Unions
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This article is part of a preview to the spring 2025 issue of Academe. The full issue will be published in May. In the United States, we face an authoritarian threat unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. President Donald Trump is swiftly implementing destructive, dehumanizing, and...
on Sat, 8PM
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The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in...
on Mar 25
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Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
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The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students with multiyear suspensions, degree revocations, and expulsions is an outrageous assault on...
on Mar 15
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AAUP Condemns Trump Administration’s Punitive Weaponization of Federal Grant Funding at Columbia
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The Trump administration has taken the unprecedented move of cancelling $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University in alleged response to “inaction by Columbia’s administration on antisemitism.” This heavy-handed partisan intrusion into Columbia’s academic, research, and...
on Mar 10
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Dismantling the Department of Education Would Hasten Us into a New Dark Age
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The department has played a crucial role in the pathway to higher education for millions of Americans by providing and administering student loans, grants, and work-study programs. Without it, access to education for working class Americans will decrease. Funding for college education will be...
on Mar 6
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The Ohio AAUP and the Repeal of Senate Bill 5
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When I became president of the AAUP chapter at the University of Cincinnati, we had just finished negotiating a contract and had plans to sponsor a few talks about academic freedom. We had no idea that we were about to face a struggle for our existence. Senate Bill 5, eventually signed into law...
on Mar 4
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Against Anticipatory Obedience
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While administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free to register our disagreement. Under no circumstances should an institution go further than the...
on Mar 3
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A Win for the AAUP, Higher Ed, and Our Communities
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Last night, in a case in which the AAUP was a plaintiff, the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary nationwide injunction on key parts of a pair of executive orders issued by President Trump. The orders broadly and in vague terms seek to end diversity, equity,...
on Feb 24
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Against Anticipatory Obedience
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The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for publication by the parent committees in December 2024 and adopted by the Council in January 2025. As...
on Jan 23
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For its 2025 volume, the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom invites submissions of scholarly articles that address the impact of large private donations on academic freedom and the educational mission of colleges and universities. Submissions are due by March 5, 2025.
on Dec 16
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Criteria for Faculty Evaluation
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Published October 2024. The following statement was drafted by a subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and approved by Committee A at its June 2024 meeting. The AAUP has long advocated for diversity in higher education, including a diverse faculty and...
on Oct 21
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Organizing for Collective Bargaining in Colorado
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This article is part of a series, "Expanding Union Rights in Public Higher Education." Colorado labor law with respect to faculty collective bargaining at public colleges and universities should be easier to understand. If we lived in an antiunion state, professors would face nearly...
on Oct 17
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The Liberal Arts and the Skills Gap Myth
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This review is part of a preview of the forthcoming fall issue of Academe, which will be published in full in October. Immeasurable Outcomes: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of the Algorithm, by Gayle Greene. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. The current attack on liberal arts majors has...
on Sep 10
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This article is part of a preview of the forthcoming fall issue of Academe, which will be published in full in October. As we head into the new academic year, American colleges and universities that last spring were at the center of protests over Israel’s war on Gaza face two major challenges....
on Sep 10
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Professors Are Not the Enemy. Fascists Are.
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The ascension of J. D. Vance to the Republican presidential ticket has brought the decades-long battle to define the future of American higher education to a tipping point. With Vance, American Far-Right authoritarians have succeeded in elevating a fascist who vows to “aggressively attack...
on Aug 23
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Statement on Academic Boycotts
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A new statement approved by the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and adopted by the Association's Council reconsiders Committee A's prior, categorical opposition to academic boycotts set forth in the 2006 report On Academic Boycotts. It maintains that academic boycotts are not...
on Aug 17
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New AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts
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The AAUP has released a new Statement on Academic Boycotts, which reconsiders the AAUP's prior categorical opposition to academic boycotts set forth in the 2006 report On Academic Boycotts. The AAUP's revised policy maintains that academic boycotts are not in themselves violations of academic...
on Aug 14
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During the 2021, 2022, and 2023 state legislative sessions more than one hundred and fifty bills were introduced seeking to actively undermine academic freedom and university autonomy. This legislation has been pushed by a network of right-wing and libertarian think tanks, working closely with...
on May 30
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New AAUP Paper Examines Partisan Megadonors' Funding of Attacks on Higher Ed
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Today, the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom released a new white paper, Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, 2021–2023, detailing well-funded and widespread political and legislative attacks on higher education.
on May 30
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In Defense of the Right to Free Speech and Peaceful Protest on University Campuses
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The AAUP and its chapters defend the right to free speech and peaceful protest on university campuses, condemn the militarized response by institutional leaders to these activities, and vehemently oppose the politically motivated assault on higher education.
on Apr 30
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Data Snapshot: Tenure and Contingency in US Higher Education
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This report summarizes data on patterns of faculty appointments and graduate student employment in US higher education from fall 1987 through fall 2021, focusing on the prevalence of tenure, contingency, and part-time employment.
on Mar 14, 2024