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 ...

Executive Summary. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Garcetti v.Ceballos (2006), 1 the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure formed a subcommittee to examine the potential impact of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The statement that follows was approved by the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and adopted by the Association’s Council in November 1999. Committee A revised the statement in ...

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 ...

1915: The AAUP is founded at an organizational meeting held in New York City on January 1 and 2. At the meeting, John Dewey, a professor of education and psychology at Columbia University, takes ...