The National AAUP stands with the University of Virginia Chapter of the AAUP, the Virginia AAUP Conference, and the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in condemning the Department of Justice’s ...

When academically qualified people do not have the financial resources needed to enroll and succeed in college, higher education fails to fulfill the promise of promoting social mobility—and may ...

The AAUP provides many policy statements that can be helpful in articulating the importance of academic freedom in faculty meetings, collective bargaining negotiations, public statements, and other ...

This statement was approved in March 1999 by the Association’s Special Committee on Distance Education and Intellectual Property Issues. It was adopted by the Association’s Council and endorsed by the ...

The statement that follows was adopted by the Council of the American Association of University Professors in October 1970. In April 1990, the Council adopted several changes in language that had been ...

Tenure was not designed as a merit badge for research-intensive faculty. . . . Tenure was conceived as a right rather than a privilege. —AAUP, Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments, 2010 The 1940 ...

The 2024 Biennial Association Meeting will occur on Friday, June 14, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Saturday, June 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the DoubleTree Crystal City, 300 Army Navy ...

The statement that follows, prepared by a joint committee of the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges (AAC; now the American Association of Colleges ...

The AAUP has been in negotiations and meeting regularly with our staff union for over two years. At this time, when our profession is under unprecedented attack, our priorities are to protect and ...

The Israeli military onslaught in Gaza, increasingly framed as a genocide by leading scholars, UN human rights experts, and human rights organizations, has triggered a new round of clampdowns in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in Perry v. Sindermann recognized that " [a] teacher . . . who has held his position for a number of years, might be able to show from the circumstances of this service--and ...

1. Our faculty are pretty apathetic, although they are concerned about the financial problems. How can we get them more engaged? 2. Most of our faculty members believe the administration’s unsupported ...