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 ...

Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented ...

Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that ...

The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on the AAUP's list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry ...

This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25, presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic trends related to US higher ...

In a case in which the AAUP was a plaintiff, the court granted a preliminary nationwide injunction on key parts of a pair anti-DEI of executive orders issued by President Trump.

The AAUP, along with the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and other plaintiffs has filed a lawsuit to block Trump’s unlawful and unconstitutional DEI executive orders, ...

Veena Dubal, professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, will serve as the Association’s next general counsel, for a renewable term ending in 2026.

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 ...

At a time when the country is confronting deep-rooted racial inequity, legislators in a number of states have moved to restrict teaching about oppression, race, and gender. We strongly oppose these ...