The Trump administration’s continued gutting of the Department of Education is a catastrophic attack on higher education. By ...

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 ...

The approval of accelerated three-year bachelor’s degrees at Suffolk and Merrimack Universities in Massachusetts threatens academic integrity.

Throughout her career, longtime AAUP leader Flo Hatcher worked on many levels to better the working conditions of faculty, ...

Grants to AAUP chapters and state conferences to support programs that promote and support racial equity at the chapter, conference, campus, and/or state level.

The AAUP national office provides resources and training on a variety of topics.

The AAUP produces a variety of publications for the academic community, ranging from recommendations on institutional ...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson released the following statement: The AAUP condemns the catastrophic faculty and staff layoffs enacted at the New School. A multimillion-dollar deficit—driven by years of ...

The United Academics of Maryland at the University of Maryland released the following statement on April 10, 2026: Starting July 1, 2026, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty across Maryland’s ...

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Long-standing AAUP policies recognize only three types of full-time faculty appointments: (a) tenured (with continuous tenure), (b) tenure-track (probationary for tenure), and (c) non-tenure-track ...