AAUP in the Media

Western Michigan University professors rally as employment-contract deadline nears.

A University of Connecticut faculty member celebrates Labor Day with a sense of appreciation.

National and international media react to the appointment of Gary Rhoades as AAUP general secretary. Read stories in Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Times Higher Education.

Higher Education News

State Ban on Cuba Travel Unconstitutional
A federal judge struck down as unconstitutional part of a Florida law that banned privately funded research trips to Cuba and other countries. (9/3)

Conference Focuses on Contingent Faculty Activism
Activists from the United States, Mexico, and Canada met August 8–11 in San Diego for the eighth conference of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, of which the AAUP is a cosponsor.

The conference highlighted the extent to which growing contingency is a global problem rather than one limited to the United States (or, for that matter to higher education).  (8/29)