Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions was formed under the assumption that faculty members are best positioned to understand and improve teaching and learning conditions, including the development and implementation of institutional policies around educational technolo...| AAUP
AAUP: The Role of the Faculty in the Governance of College Athletics| AAUP
Colleges and universities must avoid anticipatory overcompliance with a trio of executive orders targeting gender-diverse individuals.| AAUP
As an apparent reaction to student protests since last October, a number of college and university administrations have hastily enacted overly restrictive policies dealing with the rights to assemble and protest on campus. These policies, which go beyond reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions, impose severe limits on speech and assembly that discourage or shut down freedom of expression.| AAUP
A new statement by AAUP President Todd Wolfson speaks out against the potential elimination of federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds, the latest blatant attempt by the Trump administration to punish educators, target communities of color, and undermine decades of hard-won progress toward a multiracial democracy.| AAUP
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for publication by the parent committees in December 2024 and adopted by the Council in January 2025. As Donald Trump assumes the presidency for a second time, the outlook for higher education is dire.| AAUP
Last night, in a case in which the AAUP was a plaintiff, the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary nationwide injunction on key parts of a pair of executive orders issued by President Trump. The orders broadly and in vague terms seek to end diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities among federal government grantees and contractors, including virtually all colleges and universities.| AAUP
Joint statement supplementing the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure by providing a formulation of the “academic due process” that should be observed in dismissal proceedings.| AAUP
Regulations outlining recommended institutional processes that enable institutions to protect academic freedom, tenure, and to ensure academic due process.| AAUP
A report discussing academic boycotts and relevant AAUP policies, and making recommendations.| AAUP
Report from Committee A on the AAUP's position on academic boycotts.| www.aaup.org
This is the report of an investigating committee concerning the dissolution of the faculty senate at Spartanburg Community College in South Carolina. In April 2023, the SCC administration unilaterally abolished the faculty senate, an action it admitted taking to prevent the senate from voting that day to oppose the administration’s imposition of a policy requiring faculty members to be present on campus for almost forty hours each week.| AAUP
Committee A report on the assault on academic freedom, tenure, and governance in Florida higher education.| www.aaup.org
The principal purpose of tenure is to safeguard academic freedom, which is a requisite condition for all who teach and conduct research in higher education. When faculty members can lose their positions because of their speech or their publications, they cannot properly fulfill their core responsibilities. The AAUP insists that all full-time faculty members are to be considered eligible for tenure and supports tenure for part-time faculty members whose duties consist of teaching or research c...| AAUP
AAUP 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure| www.aaup.org
What is academic freedom? Academic freedom is the freedom of a teacher or researcher in higher education to investigate and discuss the issues in his or her academic field, and to teach and publish findings without interference from administrators, boards of trustees, political figures, donors, or other entities. Academic freedom also protects the right of a faculty member to speak freely when participating in institutional governance, as well as to speak freely as a citizen. What are the mai...| AAUP