What you can do to test your readiness for unionization and to lay the groundwork for a successful effort, plus an outline of ...

The AAUP's legal office responds to inquiries on higher education law from professors, academic administrators, attorneys, ...

As the faculty’s role in governance comes under growing attack, AAUP members in Texas and elsewhere are mobilizing to defend ...

There is one book that, as a higher education scholar, I routinely recommend to colleagues seeking to better understand how ...

The pandemic brings new urgency to the need to support the success of all faculty, especially women who are caregivers.

The AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure promotes standards of academic freedom, tenure, and due process in higher education through the development of policy documents and reports ...

Intellectual property (IP) at colleges and universities refers most importantly to the products of faculty, staff, and student research and scholarship. IP falls into two groups—work covered by patent ...

The AAUP condemns the brutal assault and illegal arrest of David Huerta, vice-president of the California Federation of Labor Unions and president of SEIU California and SEIU-USSW. Huerta’s arrest ...

The AAUP publishes faculty compensation survey results in the spring for the current academic year and a full report in the summer.

This report provides a statistical analysis of the presence of AAUP-recommended policies on academic freedom, dismissal for cause, financial exigency, and program discontinuance in faculty handbooks ...

In 2023, the US Department of Education announced new activity concerning OPMs, including new guidance on third-party ...

Institutions that the AAUP has determined are not observing the generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure.