The administration’s campaign against Mahdawi and other international student protesters is part of an unprecedented assault on free speech that does not end with noncitizens or with the topic of ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The AAUP has joined other education organizations in endorsing the bicameral Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act of 2024. The act would nearly double the maximum amount awarded to Pell Grant ...

An in-depth look at recent US Department of Education data on the makeup and salaries of full-time faculty members in higher education. This data snapshot provides an updated demographic profile of ...

The AAUP joined a coalition of labor unions, health care providers, schools, and religious organizations today in filing suit to stop President Trump’s latest anti-immigration power grab: a sweeping ...