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2025 AAUP Updates

Statement on the Departure of University of Virginia President James Ryan

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 assault on the independence and integrity of the University of...

Muhlenberg Censured; Albertus Magnus Removed from Censure

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 regarding actions by the Muhlenberg administration initially to...

AAUP, Allies File Suit Over Mass Termination of Science Grants

The abrupt cancellation of NSF grants damages critical research in American higher education and has repercussions far beyond academia.

New AAUP Report Highlights Trends in Faculty Compensation and other Key Economic Indicators

The AAUP today released our Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25. This report presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic trends related to US higher education. The report includes...

Trump's Travel Ban is Discriminatory

Those being excluded from the US will doubtless include faculty and students who seek to travel here to conduct academic work. Their exclusion is at odds with fundamental AAUP principles and with our nation’s historic commitment to the free exchange of ideas.

AAUP President Calls for Explanation on UNC–Chapel Hill Tenure Delay

The AAUP calls on UNC–Chapel Hill’s chancellor and board of trustees to provide a full explanation of why faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, and the Kenan-Flagler Business School did not receive tenure votes according to schedule. In...

AAUP Condemns Assault and Arrest of David Huerta

The AAUP condemns the brutal assault and illegal arrest of David Huerta, vice-president of the California Federation of Labor Unions and president of SEIU California and SEIU-USSW. Huerta’s arrest while bearing witness to the wildly cruel and destructive attacks...

Trump’s Attack on Accreditation Continues Dangerous Assault on American Higher Ed

The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses. Once again, the Trump Education Department is trampling...

Duke Must Involve Faculty In Any Layoff Decisions

When wide-ranging program cuts and terminations of faculty appointment are a possibility, AAUP standards insist that the faculty must be involved in deliberation and decisions at every stage of the process, beginning with a determination that a state of...

NYU Should Drop Disciplinary Proceedings Against Student Speaker

AAUP President Todd Wolfson sent a letter calling on the administration of NYU to grant graduate Logan Rozos’s degree without delay and end any disciplinary proceedings against him after Rozos spoke about “atrocities currently happening in Palestine” during his...

Institutions Should Support Students Under Visa Threats with Legal Aid and Housing

In response to the Trump administration's recent actions subjecting more than one thousand international students to visa revocations or other involuntary changes to their immigration status, the AAUP has written to college and university counsels to clarify...

Penn State Board Should Reject Closure Plans

The news that Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi has asked university trustees to approve closing seven of its campuses despite the fact that university finances are strong is dismaying. So is the fact that administrators arrived at this proposal without...

New Edition of the Redbook Is Available Now

Last week Johns Hopkins University Press published the twelfth edition of the AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports, informally known as the Redbook. The Redbook brings together in one convenient place AAUP policy documents and reports developed collaboratively...

Muhlenberg College Violated Academic Freedom in Dismissing Finkelstein

A new AAUP report, Academic Freedom and Tenure Muhlenberg College, concludes that the administration, in initially dismissing Dr. Maura Finkelstein, acted in violation of AAUP-supported principles and standards of academic freedom and due process. The report...

EO on Accreditation Opens the Door for Rampant Corruption and Political Interference

President Donald Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, said and done by college students and instructors. Threats to remove accreditors from their roles are transparent attempts to consolidate more...