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

On June 1, 2026, the New School announced the mass firing of 19 Full-Time Faculty and 68 staff members. These firings, along with coerced “voluntary” separations, early retirements, and step-downs sin...

St. John's University (SJU) escalated an ongoing fight against its faculty union into federal court Monday, suing the state labor board to evade the basic

June 1, 2026 Condemnation of Mass Firings AAUP-TNS condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent firings of full-time faculty, as well as unclear numbers of staff, across the university. These...

One of New York’s most prominent universities has handed layoff notices to about 15 percent of its employees, marking its latest measure to rectify a $48-million budget deficit.

Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.

UAW, 1199SEIU and NYSNA are among the signees to a letter reiterating their opposition to the vetoed bill establishing “security perimeters” outside educational facilities.

More than 5,000 full-and part-time professors will now bargain collectively as the Penn State Faculty Alliance.

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Student activists have already won important victories over Trump’s authoritarian agenda and they’re just getting started.

A University of Oklahoma student alleged religious discrimination after receiving a zero on an essay that rejected the concept of multiple genders.

Fordham faculty and students attend a protest against Marc Rowan and the Compact for Excellence in Higher Education.

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A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

Zachary Samalin is the president of NYU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors and an associate professor of English. NYU senior leadership should unequivocally reject the “Com...

Students and education workers across the US are organizing our schools towards mass non-cooperation on November 7th! Find an action on your campus!

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

Commentary: While the loss of federal funding that could come from refusing the Trump administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" would threaten Miami University's ability t...

We need to recognize a broad range of views opposing government censorship, even if we think they have pursued the wrong strategy.

Experts say the project laid the groundwork for subsequent attempts to limit what professors and teachers say in the classroom.

In the wake of the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Connecticut professors and leaders are concerned about a broader crackdown on free speech and academic freedom.

At Friday’s event, four panelists discussed current threats to academic freedom.

Faculty on the Front Lines:AAUP Members Share Stories of Repression and Resistance"Faculty on the Front Lines" is a series documenting the stories of AAUP members. While some of these participants hav...