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The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on the AAUP's list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry ...
FAQs on Election of AAUP State Conference Officers. This provides general guidance for AAUP State Conferences on the federal and AAUP requirements governing nominations and electi ...
This is the typical response from faculty members and administrators who are asked how much undergraduate students should work at paying jobs while attending college. Available research supports this ...
The following report, approved in June 1999 by the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was adopted that month by the Council and endorsed by the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting. The ...
The following statement, prepared by a subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved by Committee A in October 2019 and adopted by the AAUP's Council in ...
The following statement was approved for online publication by the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance. Political interference in US higher education has reached an alarming ...
The statement that follows, prepared by a subcommittee of the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for publication by Committee A in November 2004. This subcommittee ...
Published June 2023. This year’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession examines the economic conditions of the academy in a year that has seen both the World Health Organization and ...
In the early 1930s, the University of Pittsburgh found itself in a period of increasing uncertainty about what academic freedom meant. The previous decade had been a time of strenuous struggle between ...
Colleges and universities properly aspire to excellence in teaching. Institutional aspirations, however, have not often led to practices that clearly identify and reward teaching excellence, and the ...
This report is being issued in the midst of fundamental changes in the character of faculty rights and academic freedom. The purpose of the report is to put the dialog on intellectual property on a ...
Back in School: How Student Parents Are Transforming College and Family by A. Fiona Pearson.New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019. Scholars in the social sciences have devoted increasing ...