In a historic wall-to-wall labor union lawsuit led by the AAUP, a judge has issued a preliminary injunction that will stop the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to unlawfully stifle free speech and ...
Multiple federal laws combine with existing employer policies on medical leave, family leave, and disability accommodations to mitigate impediments to academic success for faculty welcoming a new ...
On November 7, college students and workers across the country are coming together to demand college affordability, the freedom to teach, learn, and research without partisan interference, and safety ...
On September 12, 2025, the AAUP, with a broad coalition of higher education groups, filed an amicus brief in the Federal Circuit in support of a challenge to the Trump Administration’s reduction of ...
A new report published today by the AAUP and the Middle East Studies Association finds that the weaponization of civil rights law has been central to attacks on campus speech over the past two years.
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What is shared governance, and why is it important? This session will discuss the fundamental principles that should shape governance at every institution of higher education in the US, as articulated ...
While state legislature and US Congress offices differ in many ways, there are some common practices that can help AAUP members with their advocacy visits at the state and federal levels.
Since the US Supreme Court’s infamous NLRB v. Yeshiva University decision in 1980, faculty members at private colleges and universities have confronted major roadblocks to unionization. Yeshiva labels ...
For more than two decades libertarian billionaires have made donations to universities to establish academic centers as part of an effort to restructure society around the notion of “individual ...
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