In official comments submitted yesterday, Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, urged Education Secretary Linda McMahon to reconsider the Department of ...
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AAUP Urges AAU to Deny Readmission to University of Nebraska–Lincoln Over Mass Faculty Firings
In a letter sent today, Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), formally urged the American Association of Universities (AAU) to withhold consideration of ...
The AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure advises faculty, staff, students, and administrators to “remain clear eyed about the need to refuse to comply” with the latest Trump ...
The second session in our fall series of webinars on AI issues in higher education provides examples of how to conduct public records requests to gather and analyze information pertaining to an ...
Join us to learn about how Apollo CEO Marc Rowan—a key architect of the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”—is using university endowments and our retirement s ...
The AAUP calls on UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk to withdraw his public repudiation of the UCLA School of Law symposium “25 Years After 9/11: Reimagining Freedom, Justice, and Security” and to reaffirm ...
In 2025, students and higher ed workers soundly defeated Trump’s loyalty oath compacts—the administration’s attempt to impose a political litmus test over students’ right to learn and faculty’s ...
Academic freedom has never enjoyed the “golden age” that some suggest we are leaving behind. It has always been contested and vulnerable. Today, threats to academic freedom may be more extensive and ...
The AAUP is a plaintiff in a case in which the federal court has ordered that the Trump administration cease requiring universities to comply with the executive orders seeking to ban diversity, equity ...
The following statement was approved by the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure in August 2026. Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure has repeatedly warned that academic ...
This article is part of a preview of the fall 2026 issue of Academe. The full issue will be released in October. On a fifth-grade field trip to a working ranch, the man showing us around asked whether ...
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