AAUP sends letter to President Michael Schill concerning potential discipline of Steven Thrasher. Pavan Acharya/The Daily Northwestern. The AAUP advises NU to “remain committed to academic due ...

AAUP posits a binary choice: Either conservatives get equal rights or public education continues to be “empowered.” But we can’t have both. So, “empowerment” triumphs. Unless your ...

“Penn State AAUP finds the administration derelict in its duty to the students, faculty, staff, and community members of the Commonwealth when it announced statewide campus closures,” the ...

The AAUP in 2006 declared that academic boycotts are “prima facie violations of academic freedom.” Its new statement “supersedes” that policy.

In a letter obtained by The Daily, the Northwestern Chapter of the American Association of University Professors’ executive committee condemned University President Michael Schill’s response ...

An AAUP committee recently declared that “[r]espect for faculty governance ought to be an incontrovertible tenet of administrative practice.” Yet the organization’s failure to condemn the ...

Its platform included pledges to have the AAUP’s leadership make decisions in a more-transparent manner, to improve the national office’s ability to serve the AAUP’s local chapters, and to ...

The current AAUP statement on academic boycotts states that its underlying purpose is to support and defend the “freedom to produce and exchange knowledge,” and it correctly asserts that these ...

The AAUP claims 44,000 members—out of some 1.5 million instructional faculty in U.S. institutions of higher education, according to the National Center of Education Statistics.

The VA-AAUP calls upon our elected representatives in the General Assembly, the Governor, and all leaders of academic institutions in the Commonwealth of Virginia, to: 1.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP), once the “most prominent guardian of academic freedom” in the U.S., has lost its way.