There is one book that, as a higher education scholar, I routinely recommend to colleagues seeking to better understand how ...

The AAUP calls on UNC–Chapel Hill’s chancellor and board of trustees to provide a full explanation of why faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, and the Kenan-Flagler Business ...

The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses.

Faculty members and academic staff at Wayne State University voted to form a union in 1972, and the combined bargaining unit mobilized to win a new contract in 2024.

A university president’s imposition of corporate culture to usher in drastic institutional change is an assault on faculty participation in governance.

We live in a world at war. According to the United Nations, the current century can be characterized as “a new era of conflict and violence.” The 2024 Global Peace Index lists fifty-six distinct ...

A bureaucratic approach to diversity issues in higher education, combined with the ebbing of faculty power and status, is shaping how marginalized academics imagine themselves and their professional ...

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would meaningfully penalize organizations that violate workers’ rights, expand collective bargaining rights of workers, and strengthen access to fair ...

Too often this dialogue leads to questions about whether high school graduates from all backgrounds can benefit from a college education. Unfortunately, Indebted fails to shed light on the underlying ...

Now, new and renewed organizing efforts are emerging across the country as a result of threats to the future of our profession posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and by administrative responses (and, in ...

How the Hampshire College AAUP chapter built solidarity and avoided faculty layoffs.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited the perennial debate about whether distance learning will replace brick-and-mortar higher education. We work at the York College campus of the City University of ...