Being a scholar in a country that invaded its neighbor can be an odd, even dangerous experience. In such a setting, the ideal of academic freedom can seem oxymoronic. Yet, strangely enough, academic ...

Tenure was not designed as a merit badge for research-intensive faculty. . . . Tenure was conceived as a right rather than a privilege. Before the Great Depression, academic tenure, understood as a ...

The American Association of University Professors announced today its formal endorsement of the Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation championed by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative ...

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 ...

When academically qualified people do not have the financial resources needed to enroll and succeed in college, higher education fails to fulfill the promise of promoting social mobility—and may ...

In the last year, AAUP and AFT members have successfully lobbied Congress to protect science research funding; fought back against the Trump Compact—and won!; organized and turned out for No Kings and ...

When we think of accreditation, we mostly think of a process that takes place on our campuses. This thought may or may not be agreeable to us. We rarely consider accreditation’s political role as a ...

Every semester brings a fresh round of incidents of professors coming to public attention for the wrong reasons, testing the ability of college and university leaders to work through the controversy ...

According to one theory, we are in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In this account, ad­vanced by Thomas Philbeck and Nicholas Davis of the World Economic Forum, analog machines replaced ...

Since 2015, when Governor Scott Walker signed a budget bill that cut $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system, there has been much criticism of the law’s dilution of tenure but less said ...