Curated Resource List

The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom is creating and promoting a number of practical resources that can be used by faculty, AAUP chapters, unions, administrators, and others who find themselves needing to respond to certain issues pertaining to academic freedom.

 

AAUP Resource Guides covering

Workplace Issues

Other Issues in Higher Education

Academic Freedom

Governance

 

Additional AAUP Resources

FAQ on Academic Freedom

Chapter Action Toolkit

Fighting Targeted Harassment of Faculty

Responding to Financial Crisis - FAQs

Resources on Contingent Positions

Campus Free Speech/Academic Freedom in Politically Charged Times (AAUP & AFT)

 

Resources Created by Other Organizations

Higher Ed DEI Navigator (Higher Ed Equity Network)

Historians for Peace and Democracy

 

Statements and Research Created by Other Organizations

Statement on 2024 Campus Protests” (American Historical Association)

Universities Must Respect Peaceful Activism and Revise Repressive Policies Targeting Pro-Palestine Solidarity Movement” (United Nations)

Open Letter on Fighting ‘Anti-Woke’ Censorship of Intersectionality and Black Feminism” (African American Policy Forum)

Reports: “Educational Gag Orders” (2021), “America’s Censored Classroom” (2023), and “America’s Censored Classroom” (2024) by PEN America