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The new AAUP Community College Shared Governance Survey, conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, provides information about what practices prevail nationally ...
Leading Palestinian and anti-Zionist Israeli scholars in Israeli academic institutions have been silenced and harassed.
The National AAUP stands with the University of Virginia Chapter of the AAUP, the Virginia AAUP Conference, and the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in condemning the Department of Justice’s ...
Statement by the Committee on Professional Ethics that addresses the practice of professors assigning their own texts to students.
The following report, approved in June 1999 by the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was adopted that month by the Council and endorsed by the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting. The ...
The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on the AAUP's list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry ...
Statement from the Committee on College and University Governance on political interference in higher education.
This subcommittee has been asked to comment on a category of full-time non-tenure-track faculty appointments known as "professors of practice." While appointments to these positions and similarly ...
Satement addresses the increasing tendency to add the criterion of “collegiality” to faculty evaluations and enumerates why this practice should be discouraged.
Censure results from the Association's findings that conditions for academic freedom and tenure are unsatisfactory at a college or university.
The past year has witnessed repeated efforts to establish what has been called an "Academic Bill of Rights." Based upon data purporting to show that Democrats greatly outnumber Republicans in faculty ...
Report linking the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure and the Association's 1966 Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities.