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 ...

Advocates emphasize the contributions of tenure to professional excellence and the social quest for truth. They deem these common benefits more important than either the individual benefits or the ...

The visualizations for this 2018 data snapshot are retained primarily for historical purposes. The AAUP has since updated its methodology for calculating rates of tenure and contingency, especially ...

The article by Seth Fishman in the May-June 2012 issue of Academe entitled “The Merits of Emeriti” cited Sidney Albert’s 1986 Academe article in which he discussed an emeriti bill of rights. Professor ...

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 ...

Big or small, established or fledgling, an AAUP chapter on your own campus can accomplish a surprising number of things that even the most committed faculty member can’t do alone.

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 ...

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

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

Two decades of activism and scholarship have uncovered histories and established a foundation for institutional change.

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 ...

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 ...