The 2026 issue of the AAUP's Journal of Academic Freedom seeks submissions on initiatives that have been pursued, strategies that have been deployed, coalitions that have been built, and work that ...

On November 7, 2025, faculty and students from Morehouse College, Spelman College, Morris Brown College, and Clark Atlanta University came together for a powerful day of action. Marches at Morehouse ...

Friday evening, 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 ...

The statement that follows is directed to governing board members, administrators, faculty members, students, and other persons in the belief that the colleges and universities of the United States ...

“We must put an end to the degraded worker contracts and the contingency and the corporatization of the sector. We need a higher ed system that’s not rooted in students as customers, but rooted in ...

“Redefining academic freedom now is a red herring — the real story is a small group trying to turn universities corporate,” UNC-CH associate professor and AAUP member Abigail Hatcher said. “Calling ...

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Today, the AAUP released the new statement On Institutional Neutrality, which reaffirms that institutional neutrality is neither a necessary condition for academic freedom nor categorically ...

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 ...

The AAUP has released a new statement titled Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Criteria for Faculty Evaluation, which holds that, when appropriately designed and implemented, diversity, equity, and ...