AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued a statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to transform how the federal government funds research.
The administration’s campaign against Mahdawi and other international student protesters is part of an unprecedented assault on free speech that does not end with noncitizens or with the topic of ...
A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to governance into higher education.
The AAUP calls on Northwestern University to immediately reject external and donor-driven censorship publicly, restore Thrasher to his full teaching duties, and reaffirm its commitment to protecting ...
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit Texas AAUP-AFT et al.  v. Creighton et al. filed a motion for a preliminary injunction, asking the court to immediately halt enforcement of university policies that restrict ...
This year’s survey closed in March 2026 and includes data from 768 institutions on 359,234 full-time faculty members, 664 institutions on 125,149 part-time faculty members, and 484 institutions on ...
Join the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, Scholars for New Deal in Higher Education, and Critical Legal Collective for the third in a virtual panel discussion series. Imaginative ...
On December 22, 2025, the AAUP and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) filed an amicus brief in the Third Circuit to affirm the district court’s dismissal of a Title VI lawsuit against the ...
This data snapshot summarizes the most recent federal data on women and people of color holding nonmedical instructional faculty appointments in US higher education. The data source is the Integrated ...
In 2025, the size of the global executive search market will likely exceed $58 billion, and by 2030 it could approach $95 billion. This year, the United States is estimated to ac­count for about $10.3 ...
Among the most quietly invidious developments occur­ring in US colleges and universities over the last two years is the consolidation of the Right’s appropria­tion of the language of “institutional ...
The AAUP joined a coalition of labor unions, health care providers, schools, and religious organizations today in filing suit to stop President Trump’s latest anti-immigration power grab: a sweeping ...