1. Introduction This statement is a call to mutual understanding regarding the government of colleges and universities. Understanding, based on community of interest and producing joint effort, is ...

A meeting for AAUP chapter leaders. Check your email for registration!

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 ...

The University of California protest movement shows that social media shape not only the new social movements but also the media as a whole. In fall 2009, I had the pleasure and privilege of ...

The trend toward secrecy in presidential searches violates long-standing norms of shared governance. It also runs counter to the public interest.

In September 1990, September 1991, and November 1992, an inter-association task force met to study, interpret, update, and affirm (or reaffirm) the Joint Statement. Members of the task force agreed ...

This special report addresses disregard for norms of academic governance in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic at eight institutions.

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 ...

Statement discussing communication between faculties and governing boards in colleges and universities and urging increased faculty-board communication.

Land-grant institutions must grapple with the original sin of their founding.

In the almost thirty years since the term intersectionality was introduced, it has been taken up in a range of academic disciplines in the United States and beyond. It has even entered public ...

The future of the academic profession depends upon rebuilding the system of tenure.