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The new AAUP Community College Shared Governance Survey, conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, provides information about what practices prevail nationally ...
Keeping track of these issues, both for yourself and for the people you work with, helps the entire office space feel less alienating.
This report seeks to understand the context and content of the “campus free-speech” movement, to track its influence within state legislatures, and to draw some conclusions concerning the best ways to ...
The AAUP provides many policy statements that can be helpful in articulating the importance of academic freedom in faculty meetings, collective bargaining negotiations, public statements, and other ...
The National AAUP stands with the University of Virginia Chapter of the AAUP, the Virginia AAUP Conference, and the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in condemning the Department of Justice’s ...
It's hard to decide where to begin to address the many unwarranted assumptions, flawed conclusions and strained arguments in Matthew Woessner's essay on the political climate of higher education, ...
Statement by the Committee on Professional Ethics that addresses the practice of professors assigning their own texts to students.
The following report, approved in June 1999 by the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was adopted that month by the Council and endorsed by the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting. The ...
This subcommittee has been asked to comment on a category of full-time non-tenure-track faculty appointments known as "professors of practice." While appointments to these positions and similarly ...
The AAUP has two affiliated organizations. The AAUP Foundation is the charitable arm of the AAUP enterprise. It is a grant making organization that shares with the AAUP a commitment to academic ...
This statement advances an impassioned argument for the importance of expert knowledge and the institutions of higher education that produce and transmit it.