Trump’s accreditation overhaul could reshape college accountability, academic freedom and federal power—and students have a major stake in the outcome.

The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...

Come learn about the far right's attempt to capture higher ed accreditation, what is changing and why it matters, and how you can join in the fight and take action.

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As funding cuts reshape the US research landscape, Stefano Cataldi is turning towards policy and advocacy work to defend science.

The Trump administration has said it will end the tax-exempt status for universities with programs that help racial minority students.

A large crowd of blue-shirted students, faculty and alumni gathered at Yale University’s Cross Campus to protest.

More than 100 students, faculty and alumni called on Yale to defend itself against the Trump administration.

Texas joins national push for accelerated programs, even as some critics warn the trend could devalue diplomas.

Former Justice Department lawyers say investigations into Brown and Columbia over alleged antisemitism were politically motivated. But it’s unclear whether federal officials will investigate the whist...

It wasn’t the AAUP.

The American Association of University Professors' endorsement, back to school advice and more.

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

A conversation with Tim Cain, an academic freedom expert and professor of higher education at the University of Georgia.

Leaders are weighing a settlement over reverse discrimination claims amid criticism from students, faculty and alumni.

The opposition to a potential deal with the government reveals a strategy that Yale groups have spent a year honing.

The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.

BY VEENA DUBAL The following report by AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal, Professor of Law at the University of California at Irvine, was delivered to the AAUP’s biennial meeting in Chicago on…

BY BRITT PARIS As AI companies are flailing, financial forecasters warn of an AI bubble. There is an extensive list of harms AI poses to workers, students, communities, the environment, and the soc…

A new state law mandates that Texas' core curriculum must be 'foundational.' No one is really saying what that means.

This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.

The AAUP condemns the catastrophic faculty and staff layoffs enacted at the New School.

President Donald Trump's administration put dozens of college campuses under investigation last year and cut federal funding unless they came in line with his Republican agenda.

The Office of Management and Budget published long-expected proposed rules for how federal agencies must carry out Trump’s order to put “senior appointees” in charge of deciding who gets funded. The p...