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The article discusses a new statement approved by various committees within the AAUP on eliminating discrimination and achieving equality in higher education. The statement addresses the backlash against movements for equality and emphasizes the importance of advancing knowledge about race, gender, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. It also highlights the inseparable connection between discriminatory attacks and threats to core academic values such as shared governance, academic freedom, and tenure. The statement reaffirms the AAUP's commitment to holding colleges and universities accountable for serving the public interest and promoting an inclusive democracy. It also discusses the responsibility of the academic profession in addressing systemic discrimination and unconscious bias. The article concludes with a call to colleges and universities to address the persistence of systemic discrimination in response to a recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action programs in college admissions. [Extracted from the article]

The AAUP has released a report detailing politically motivated attacks on higher education in Florida under Governor Ron DeSantis. The report highlights the assault on academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance in Florida's public colleges and universities, which is unprecedented in US history and threatens the future of higher education in the state. It specifically examines the right-wing takeover at New College of Florida, where faculty members were ousted, programs were eliminated, and tenure was attacked. The report also discusses other forms of political interference in Florida's higher education system, including attacks on faculty academic freedom, curriculum, diversity programs, and LGBTQ+ rights. It concludes by calling on professional organizations, unions, and communities to oppose these reforms and support colleagues in Florida. [Extracted from the article]

It also assesses how the environment for academic freedom in the UNC system has been weakened by the politicization and increased centralization of system governance and by mounting political interference in university policy. The special committee's report surveys the environment for governance and academic freedom in the UNC system against this backdrop of overtly partisan political control. In April, the AAUPpublished a report by the Special Committee on Governance, Academic Freedom, and Institutional Racism in the University of North Carolina system. [Extracted from the article]

At its November meeting, the AAUP's Council adopted the statement On Academic Freedom and Transphobia. But academic freedom cannot be understood to support misgendering - referring to someone using a word or pronoun that does not reflect that person's gender identity - or otherwise serve as an excuse for transphobia or the diminishment of trans, intersex, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary persons and their lives. The statement holds that academic freedom protects conversations and learning about potentially uncomfortable subjects, including histories and experiences of sexuality and gender that do not conform to prevailing social narratives. [Extracted from the article]

In January the AAUP published In Defense of Knowledgeand Higher Education, a statement that advances animpassioned argument for the importance of expertknowledge and the institutions of higher education thatproduce and transmit it. How can a government developeffective policy when it rejects informed, dispassionatestudies of climate change, suppresses its own data collectionon white supremacist domestic terrorism, or imposes gagorders on doctors under regulations prohibiting discussion ofabortion or contraception, merely because they contradictideological belief? In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education connects thecurrent attack on the disciplines and higher education withthe undermining of universities that has occurred since the1970s. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on an amicus brief filed by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in association with the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to oppose a University of Texas at Austin policy mandating that faculty allow concealed handguns in their classrooms. The AAUP argues that the policy violates faculty members' academic freedom.

The article offers information on a report published by American Association of University Professors on an investigation concerning issues of academic governance stemming from the actions taken in spring 2018 by the administration of the Vermont Law School to restructure the law school's faculty by lowering salaries. It discusses reducing the number of full-time positions, and eliminating the tenured status of fourteen of the nineteen tenured faculty members.

The article offers information on comments related to the amendments proposed by the U.S. Department of Education to the regulations governing the implementation of Title IX by American Association of University Professors. It discusses prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. It mentions failure to specify the importance of academic freedom and shared governance for Title IX proceedings.

The article presents stories received by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) from faculty members about experiences of targeted harassment and intimidation. One professor was targeted for online harassment because of his campaign against anti-vaccination misinformation. Another professor received threats when he required students taking a course related to fracking and climate change to use data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to support their arguments.

The article discusses a report by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) regarding threats to academic freedom in the physical and natural sciences that have been exacerbated by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump's hostility to science. The report is titled "National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom." It provides recommendations on how to resist government efforts to restrict or discredit scientific research on grounds of national security.

The article reports on the release of the "Recommendations on Partner Accommodation and Dual-Career Appointments" by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Committee on Women in the Academic Profession in 2010. The paper is part of AAUP efforts to promote gender equity and work-family balance in the academy. The aim of the paper is to aid colleges and universities in addressing issues raised by dual-career academic appointments. The paper is available on the AAUP Web site.

The article reports on the denial of the tenure application of assistant professor of history and political science John Lewis by Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio over the topic of his research. University officials are particularly disturbed by his writings that advocated for Objectivist views. Lewis appealed the tenure denial on several grounds, most importantly that the decision violated his academic freedom, a charge strongly supported by the appeals committee, which recommended that Ashland's president reconsider the decision.

The article reports on a new presentation, Faculty Have Families Too, released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Committee on Women in the Academic Profession, highlighting current research on work and family issues in academia and the best practices recommended in the 2001 Statement of Principles on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work of AAUP. Five years ago, the MUP identified best practices for campuses seeking to create family-friendly work places, but policy statements alone cannot change campus climates. This presentation is designed to help concerned faculty and AAUP chapters evaluate their own campus policies and initiate debate on how those policies can be improved, says committee chair Ann Higginbotham.

Deals with the importance of tenure position for university faculty. Consequences of faculty without tenure; Arguments against tenure; Actions being taken by the American Association of University Professors to improve working conditions for all faculty.

The article presents a report prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and of the Committee on Women in the Academic Profession. It was approved by both committees in May 2016 and adopted by the Association's Council in June of that year. Title IX defines sex discrimination as encompassing more than sexual harassment and sexual assault. Sex discrimination involves issues related to women's access to educational opportunities.