The AAUP urges medical school institutional leaders to resist the DOJ’s demands to hand over private applicant data and prioritize student privacy and academic independence rather than capitulate to ...

On Earth Day, the presidents of the AAUP and the AFT wrote to TIAA to request a meeting regarding TIAA’s continued investments in fossil fuel companies.

The AAUP has joined a coalition challenging a new Trump executive order that seeks to undermine efforts designed to promote inclusion and help ensure equal opportunity.

Freedom of expression, we are often told, is democracy’s lifeblood, the medium through which even the most contentious viewpoints can pass. Free speech, according to this view, is debate’s condition ...

April 22, 2026 — Today the AAUP sent the following letter to administrators at Stanford, Ohio State, and UC San Diego urging institutional leaders to prioritize student privacy and academic ...

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 racially charged recordings of Donald Sterling, then owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, were addressed publicly by NBA commissioner Adam Silver in April 2014, prior to an NBA ...

From coast to coast, higher education workers are rising up against the Trump administration’s unprecedented war on our colleges and universities. This May Day, a massive wave of resistance is ...

Statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson on Columbia’s announcement of student punishments in response to Trump administration threats. The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any ...

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 ...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Governor of Oklahoma’s signing of Executive Order 2026-07, which immediately eliminates the conferral of academic tenure ...

Today, the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure issued a new report, On Title VI, Discrimination, and Academic Freedom, that addresses the issue of discrimination in higher education and ...