Preliminary results from the AAUP’s 2025–26 Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty fell between fall 2024 and fall 2025, ending two years of postpandemic recovery.

Instead, at a time when higher education is under constant attack, they are doing the attackers’ work for them by ...

Kentucky House Bill 490 poses a direct threat to students, faculty, high quality college education, and the prosperity of the ...

Data collection for the 2025–26 FCS concluded in March, with nearly 780 US colleges and universities providing employment data for approximately 360,000 full-time and over 125,000 part-time faculty ...

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, for a renewable ...

Statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson on Columbia’s announcement of student punishments in response to Trump administration threats. The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any ...

Update 5/23/25: On May 22, district court in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction halting the Trump administration’s unlawful effort to dismantle the Department of Education. The court ...

Mia McIver has joined the AAUP’s staff as the new executive director. McIver comes to the AAUP with extensive experience as a faculty member and leader in the higher education labor movement. McIver ...

The AAUP has released a new statement titled Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Criteria for Faculty Evaluation, which holds that, when appropriately designed and implemented, diversity, equity, and ...

The AAUP issued the following statement today: As the ongoing demonstrations of the past few weeks have shown, our nation is once again being called on to reckon with systemic racism and its impact on ...

The governing Council of the AAUP has voted to censure the University System of Georgia (USG) for the unilateral action of its administration and governing board to remove the protections of tenure ...

The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, ...