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2024 AAUP Updates

AAUP Condemns Faculty Arrests Amidst Protest Crackdown at NYU

The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "persona non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be free from institutional censorship and discipline when...

Accreditor Should Not Drop Diversity Standards

The AAUP urges the Western Association of Schools and Colleges’ Senior College and University Commission not to bend to the political winds by reversing its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in its standards for accreditation.

Veena Dubal Appointed as AAUP General Counsel

The AAUP is thrilled to announce the appointment of Veena Dubal, professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, as the Association’s next general counsel. Professor Dubal’s research focuses broadly on law, technology, and precarious...

University of North Texas Should Reverse Course Censorship

The AAUP stands with Texas faculty associations in protesting the reported censorship of more than 200 courses at the University of North Texas. The reported removal of words such as “race,” “gender,” “class,” and “equity” from undergraduate and graduate course...

AAUP President: Higher Ed Must Organize

The AAUP is committed to defending our campuses and the mission of higher education through organizing our communities to face the challenges that lie ahead. Our collective power is needed now more than ever. To that end, we will do everything in our power to...

President Wolfson Shows Solidarity with Community College of Philadelphia

AAUP President Todd Wolfson has issued a letter in support of the Community College of Philadelphia, urging Board Chairman Harold Epps and President Guy Generals to settle their current contract. President Wolfson states that "now is the time to invest in the...

Protect Higher Ed in Connecticut

After years of cuts to academic budgets at the state’s flagship, the University of Connecticut, dozens of majors and scores of graduate programs are now on the chopping block. According to news reports, majors including philosophy; women’s, gender, and sexuality...

Northwestern University Must Protect Academic Freedom

As Professor Steven Thrasher faces potential discipline for exercising his academic freedom, the AAUP urges Northwestern University to remain committed to academic due process and academic freedom as well as anti-discrimination regulations designed to protect...

University of Minnesota Should Reinstate Raz Segal Job Offer

AAUP president Todd Wolfson joins the UM AAUP chapter in condemning the reported action of the UM administration and board to rescind a job offer to Professor Raz Segal in response to outside political pressure.

Organize Every Campus

The AAUP is excited to be kicking off a new organizing campaign, Organize Every Campus. The program will help hone and develop member and leader organizing skills so that we can stand together, fight back, and build a better future for ourselves, our students...

New Statement on DEI Criteria and Faculty Evaluation

The AAUP has released a new statement which holds that, when appropriately designed and implemented, diversity, equity, and inclusion criteria for faculty appointment, reappointment, tenure, and promotion are compatible with academic freedom and may serve as an...

Aaron Nisenson Named Interim Executive Director

Aaron Nisenson will serve as interim executive director of the AAUP while a search for a director is underway. Aaron has served as senior counsel and director of the legal department at the AAUP since 2013 and speaks and writes extensively on higher education...

Inquiry at Muhlenberg

The AAUP will conduct an inquiry into the case of Professor Maura Finkelstein, who was first summarily suspended from her tenured position at Muhlenberg College and then dismissed because of a student complaint regarding her extramural speech and conduct related...

Five Minutes for Voter Registration

The Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project aims to increase student voter registration and turnout by asking faculty to devote five minutes of class time to voter education and on-the-spot voter registration. Sign up and project leaders...

Yet Another Intrusion on Teaching in Florida

The State University System of Florida’s recent decision to require campuses to identify all courses that might have “antisemitic material and/or anti-Israel bias” is the latest step in the state’s ongoing attack on academic and intellectual freedom and the...