2013 AAUP Updates

The AAUP national office is closed Tuesday, December 10, for snow. We follow the federal government's snow closures.

The AAUP, which opposes academic boycotts as violations of academic freedom, is disappointed by the ASA council’s vote and urges ASA members to reject this resolution.

Full-time non-tenure-track lecturers at the University of New Hampshire have launched a bid to form a union chapter of the AAUP.  Below, UNH lecturers with union cards in front of Thompson Hall at the university.

The AAUP has released a brief statement on the freedom to teach. The statement, which you can read here, discusses issues that arise when multiple faculty members work together to teach different sections of the same course.

The AAUP has joined with the American Civil Liberties Union and the PEN America Center to urge the US government to grant a visa to a London-based human rights advocate who has been waiting for more than a year and a half for a visa for travel to the United States to speak at Harvard and other venues.

Rudy Fichtenbaum, AAUP president, spoke recently at University of Cincinnati on the growing crisis of student loan debt and increasing tuition, and decreasing funding for public colleges and universities.

The AAUP congratulates the California Faculty Association, an AAUP affiliate, on a strong thirty years.

The American Association of University Professors’ Journal of Academic Freedom—a peer-reviewed, online, open access publication—seeks scholarly articles for its 2014 volume.