The American Association of University Professors announced today its formal endorsement of the Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation championed by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative ...

In the last year, AAUP and AFT members have successfully lobbied Congress to protect science research funding; fought back against the Trump Compact—and won!; organized and turned out for No Kings and ...

Being a scholar in a country that invaded its neighbor can be an odd, even dangerous experience. In such a setting, the ideal of academic freedom can seem oxymoronic. Yet, strangely enough, academic ...

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 ...

Every semester brings a fresh round of incidents of professors coming to public attention for the wrong reasons, testing the ability of college and university leaders to work through the controversy ...

Tenure was not designed as a merit badge for research-intensive faculty. . . . Tenure was conceived as a right rather than a privilege. Before the Great Depression, academic tenure, understood as a ...

Since 2015, when Governor Scott Walker signed a budget bill that cut $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system, there has been much criticism of the law’s dilution of tenure but less said ...

Data collection for the 2025–26 FCS concluded in March, with nearly 780 US colleges and universities providing employment data for approximately 360,000 full-time and over 125,000 part-time faculty ...

When academically qualified people do not have the financial resources needed to enroll and succeed in college, higher education fails to fulfill the promise of promoting social mobility—and may ...