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 ...

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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 ...

Today, the AAUP and its Texas affiliate, Texas AAUP-AFT, sued Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the board of regents over two system memoranda (the Creighton ...

The AAUP, AFT Connecticut, and the national AFT call on Yale University to reject any negotiated settlement that would ...

AAUP president Todd Wolfson and AFT president Randi Weingarten issued the following statement on June 28, 2026. The approval of accelerated three-year bachelor’s degrees at Suffolk and Merrimack ...

The AAUP announced the formation of a Committee of Inquiry tasked with examining the multiple serious violations of academic freedom and the dismantling of shared faculty governance across Texas ...

Throughout her career, longtime AAUP leader Flo Hatcher worked on many levels to better the working conditions of faculty, especially faculty in contingent positions, and to ensure that higher ...