Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. Barring a foundational philosopher who ...

Penn, joined a coalition of Jewish students and scholars to intervene in a Trump administration lawsuit seeking the ...

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender, 2024 Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2005 Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2014 ...

The AAUP's definition of "censure" evolved through debates that touched on pivotal issues of faculty roles, powers, and duties. In June 2002 the annual meeting of the American Association of ...

The statement that follows is directed to governing board members, administrators, faculty members, students, and other persons in the belief that the colleges and universities of the United States ...

In June 1967, a committee composed of representatives from the American Association of University Professors, the United States National Student Association (now the United States Student Association) ...

A 2017 Pew poll regarding Americans’ views on higher education, specifically those of Republicans, should alarm educators and, indeed, all citizens. Pew found that nearly 60 percent of Republicans ...

The following report, approved in June 1999 by the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was adopted that month by the Council and endorsed by the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting. The ...

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 ...

This report has been superseded by the publication in 2024 of a new Statement on Academic Boycotts. In spring 2005, the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, in response to a ...

In the last decade, conservatives have launched multiple attacks on faculty tenure in higher education. As we understandably focus on these episodes in states such as Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, ...

The following statement was drafted by a subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and approved by Committee A at its June 2024 meeting. The Association’s Committee ...