The statement that follows was adopted by the Council of the American Association of University Professors in October 1970. In April 1990, the Council adopted several changes in language that had been ...

The Israeli military onslaught in Gaza, increasingly framed as a genocide by leading scholars, UN human rights experts, and human rights organizations, has triggered a new round of clampdowns in ...

When academically qualified people do not have the financial resources needed to enroll and succeed in college, higher education fails to fulfill the promise of promoting social mobility—and may ...

Tenure was not designed as a merit badge for research-intensive faculty. . . . Tenure was conceived as a right rather than a privilege. —AAUP, Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments, 2010 The 1940 ...

The statement that follows, prepared by a joint committee of the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges (AAC; now the American Association of Colleges ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in Perry v. Sindermann recognized that " [a] teacher . . . who has held his position for a number of years, might be able to show from the circumstances of this service--and ...