2020 AAUP Updates

The AAUP has created a new FAQ page on AAUP principles and standards for the COVID-19 crisis.

The AAUP, together with its organizing partner the American Federation of Teachers, has formulated principles to guide higher education's response to COVID-19.

The Emory University Faculty Hearing Committee has found that the Emory administration failed to demonstrate adequate cause for dismissing tenured law professor Paul Zwier for his classroom use of the n-word, which the AAUP had defended as protected speech under principles of academic freedom.

AAUP president Rudy Fichtenbaum has issued a statement on campus responses to the coronavirus.

The AAUP has created a resource page for the higher ed community on the coronavirus (COVID-19).

Remarks from Henry Reichman, second vice president of the AAUP and chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, read at a March 2 press conference held by faculty organizing group  in support of striking UC Santa Cruz graduate workers.

The AAUP's Council has issued the following statement of support for the striking graduate student workers at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

The AAUP sent a letter today to the administration of Babson College regarding the case of Asheen Phansey, a part-time faculty member who was summarily dismissed on January 9 after posting a jocular comment on Facebook concerning President Trump’s tweeted threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites.