There is one book that, as a higher education scholar, I routinely recommend to colleagues seeking to better understand how ...

The AAUP calls on UNC–Chapel Hill’s chancellor and board of trustees to provide a full explanation of why faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, and the Kenan-Flagler Business ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses.

Faculty members and academic staff at Wayne State University voted to form a union in 1972, and the combined bargaining unit mobilized to win a new contract in 2024.

We live in a world at war. According to the United Nations, the current century can be characterized as “a new era of conflict and violence.” The 2024 Global Peace Index lists fifty-six distinct ...

A university president’s imposition of corporate culture to usher in drastic institutional change is an assault on faculty participation in governance.

The author of the report was Professor David Fellman, who, after his term as chair of Committee A, served as president of the AAUP (1964-66). In his report, Professor Fellman vividly explains why ...

This frank admission, followed by an even franker vagueness, seems the university line these days among those campuses holding classes and opening dorms during a pandemic. Yes, some students and staff ...

Too often this dialogue leads to questions about whether high school graduates from all backgrounds can benefit from a college education. Unfortunately, Indebted fails to shed light on the underlying ...

A bureaucratic approach to diversity issues in higher education, combined with the ebbing of faculty power and status, is shaping how marginalized academics imagine themselves and their professional ...

As we look toward a postpandemic future, we must work to create a university that can repair both the devastating wounds inflicted on society under finance capitalism and the internal rifts that have ...

Now, new and renewed organizing efforts are emerging across the country as a result of threats to the future of our profession posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and by administrative responses (and, in ...