It illustrates the complex balancing act for colleges and universities in responding to ICE actions.

The following email was sent  by the EC to President Cunningham, Provost Ritter, and the Board of Regents on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. Dear President Cunningham, Provost Ritter and Board of...

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The following is an email sent to President Cunningham  and the Board of Regents  from the executive committee urging them to avoid a strike by settling a fair contract with Teamsters Local 320....

University of Minnesota​ Twin Cities Chapter AAUP v. Rubio

Talking about it is one thing. Actually standing for it is another.

At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.

A newsletter published by fellows at the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom

University of Minnesota Twin Cities Chapter

The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...

Michael Meranze reviews David M. Rabban’s “Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right.”

The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "personae non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be...

UMN-GLU: UE Local 1105

The AAUP stands with Texas faculty associations in protesting the reported censorship of more than 200 courses at the University of North Texas. The reported removal of words such as “race,” “gender,”...

Twin Cities Chapter Statement on Mayor Frey's Assault on Academic Freedom

A senate meeting at the University of North Texas provided more heat than light about the scrubbing of course content related to diversity, equity and...

The AAUP is excited to be kicking off a new organizing campaign, Organize Every Campus. The program will help hone and develop member and leader organizing skills so that we can stand together, fight ...

FIRE is no defender of academic freedom, Joan W. Scott writes.

Texas AAUP-AFT Raises Faculty Concerns Over Course Censorship at the University of North Texas (Denton)

Professors and instructors say the university is preemptively censoring itself after administrators removed references to race and equity in dozens of College of Education course titles and descriptio...

In an Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research survey conducted shortly before the election, over 90 percent of faculty strongly or somewhat agreed that academic freedom is under threat.

There is an urgent matter related to the recent search for a director of CLA’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS). In a series of events reminiscent of the  Steven Salaita case ,...

Universities across the country are responding to student comments too harshly.