The AAUP and AFT strongly defend the academic freedom of Professor Derek Peterson and condemn the escalating campaign of political pressure and public intimidation directed at him following his ...

Authors, editors, and publishers must assert the value of academic writing in an age of exploitative automation.

Students increasingly use ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) to do their homework assignments and assist with ...

There’s nothing new about the latest struggle between administrators and the professoriate over control of the classroom.

Generative AI is enabling students to avoid the friction of learning—the struggle to synthesize, organize, and articulate ...

Although I have been learning about best teaching practices for more than twenty-five years now, I still find there are many ...

April 22, 2026 — Today the AAUP sent the following letter to administrators at Stanford, Ohio State, and UC San Diego urging institutional leaders to prioritize student privacy and academic ...

Please join us for a webinar on the delegate registration and credentialing process. AAUP Council positions will be filled in a secret ballot election of credentialed delegates of AAUP chapters and ...

Freedom of expression, we are often told, is democracy’s lifeblood, the medium through which even the most contentious viewpoints can pass. Free speech, according to this view, is debate’s condition ...

Their common characteristic is that institutions make little or no long-term commitment to faculty holding these positions. Today, a large proportion of faculty appointments are part-time. Both ...

The racially charged recordings of Donald Sterling, then owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, were addressed publicly by NBA commissioner Adam Silver in April 2014, prior to an NBA ...

From coast to coast, higher education workers are rising up against the Trump administration’s unprecedented war on our colleges and universities. This May Day, a massive wave of resistance is ...