A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to governance into higher education.

The AAUP calls on Northwestern University to immediately reject external and donor-driven censorship publicly, restore Thrasher to his full teaching duties, and reaffirm its commitment to protecting ...

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit Texas AAUP-AFT et al.  v. Creighton et al. filed a motion for a preliminary injunction, asking the court to immediately halt enforcement of university policies that restrict ...

The AAUP, AFT Connecticut, and the national AFT call on Yale University to reject any negotiated settlement that would ...

Mia McIver has joined the AAUP’s staff as the new executive director. McIver comes to the AAUP with extensive experience as a faculty member and leader in the higher education labor movement. McIver ...

The AAUP condemns the shocking murder of Charlie Kirk and all violent acts committed on college and university campuses. We issued the following response to actions taken in the aftermath of the ...

The AAUP notes with sadness the death of Michael A. Olivas on April 21 at the age of seventy-one. Olivas, who served as the Association's general counsel from 1994 to 1998 and on AAUP and AAUP ...

The AAUP and a broad coalition of faculty, staff, students, and labor unions today filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration’s attempt to unlawfully stifle free speech within the ...

Today, the AAUP and its Texas affiliate, Texas AAUP-AFT, sued Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the board of regents over two system memoranda (the Creighton ...

Today, the integrity of research, teaching, and learning in US higher education is under sustained attack. In the aftermath of the events of October 7, 2023, powerful campus outsiders—including donors ...

As an apparent reaction to student protests since last October, a number of college and university administrations have hastily enacted overly restrictive policies dealing with the rights to assemble ...

In a landmark ruling, a federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian ...