Academe

A reexamination of Du Bois’s evolving vision of the university suggests new ways of thinking about the AAUP’s past and future.

The AAUP, following US higher education as a whole, maintained discriminatory membership practices until the mid-twentieth century.

AAUP investigations played a significant role in battles over academic freedom and racial equality in the South.

An investigation undertaken more than a half century ago sheds light on the legacy of the Association’s work at historically Black colleges and universities in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Association’s past engagement with issues facing historically Black institutions and scholars of color can both inform and affirm its current commitment to racial justice in higher education.

What can we learn today from an AAUP investigating committee report written more than a half century ago?

Since the early 1970s, the AAUP has supported affirmative action as a constitutive element of its vision for higher education for the common good.

A survey of sociologists trained at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University yields passionate defenses of their discipline and the tools it provides for fighting injustice.

The histories of Black Mountain College, the Free University of New York, and the Antiuniversity of London offer intriguing models for escape from an academy under siege.