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.

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.

In honor of Norman Birnbaum, who died on January 4, 2019, we share this interview published in the January–February 2007 Academe. In this interview, Norman Birnbaum, one of the country’s foremost ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the AAUP speaks, it is the voice of the profession. Read a sampling of what the media is saying about the AAUP.

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 ...

In September 2025, the AAUP and a coalition of unions filed a lawsuit in federal court that resulted in a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to coerce the ...

Please join us for a webinar on the delegate registration and credentialing process. AAUP Council positions will be filled in a secret ballot election of credentialed delegates of AAUP chapters and ...

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 ...