The AAUP is thrilled to announce the appointment of Veena Dubal, professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, as the Association’s next general counsel, for a renewable ...

The tenure system is a ubiquitous feature of American higher education. Of the roughly 1,400 four-year institutions that the Carnegie Classification system categorizes as bachelor’s, master’s, or ...

The AAUP is surely right to seek to develop a position on knowledge that would be strong enough to counter contemporary attacks on facts, disciplines, and the institutional structures and aims of the ...

In this essay, the authors document the work of the Sanctuary Campus Network, a network of over fourteen hundred campus workers formed in late 2024 to create a mechanism of mutual aid and support for ...

The AAUP is a union and membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the ...

This collection of vignettes is an answer to a collective call from faculty members across the US South facing intensifying attacks on academic freedom. Following a February 2026 cross-state ...

In this essay, we show that the retaliatory firings in academia following Charlie Kirk’s assassination based on private social media posts are unsurprising, given what was already well established in ...

The AAUP is a union and membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the ...

This paper discusses the issue of academic freedom in the context of Mauritius, with a focus on its first university, the University of Mauritius. The University of Mauritius was set up in the late ...

The AAUP is a union and membership association of faculty and other academic professionals. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we have members and chapters based at colleges and universities across the ...

This essay showcases Equity Week, a national interdisciplinary initiative linking academic inquiry, public policy advocacy, and cultural expression to advance equity and justice. Held in Washington, ...

Virtual doctoral student communities are essential “counterspaces” for Black doctoral scholars facing systemic exclusion and racialized surveillance in the physical campus spaces of academia. Despite ...