Professors have long assigned to their students works of which they were the author. The practice ranges from assigning commercially published textbooks they have written to having students buy a ...

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 ...

Listen to more about current topics with our podcast, titled "Academic Freedom on the Line."The special podcast series of AAUP Presents will explore what we're really defending when we defend academic ...

The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on its list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry regarding ...

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The AAUP has established a fund to support chapters that have incurred unexpected expenses because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Response Fund will make grants of up to $15,000 available to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Report concerning the administration of Nichols College's dismissal of a faculty member prior to the expiration of his term of appointment, without providing him with the basic safeguards of academic ...