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 ...

A new comprehensive report analyzing the incorporation of academic freedom provisions in collective bargaining agreements across higher education institutions was jointly released by the National ...

The 2026 AAUP Higher Ed Summit and Biennial Meeting was held this past weekend, June 10–13, in Chicago, Illinois. This is not a normal moment, and this could not be a normal convention. Higher ...

As an apparent reaction to student protests since last October, a number of college and university administrations have hastily enacted overly restrictive policies dealing with the rights to assemble ...

On August 26, 2026, the AAUP's national Council approved the following resolution. Whereas, Wilhelm Davidson has faithfully served the American Association of University Professors for thirty-nine ...

The AAUP joined the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in submitting two public comments on proposals made by the US Department of Education. The AAUP and AFT praised the Biden administration’s ...

As part of our broader push for a New Deal for higher education, we’ve endorsed two potential paths toward increased funding for colleges and universities—and, we hope, more equitable policies to ...