Tag: American Association of University Professors

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AAUP Pressures Campuses to Enact Safe Reopenings with Delta Variant

As schools prepare for the fall, the president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), issued a statement calling on campus administrations to put safety measures in place given the spread of COVID-19's Delta variant.

August 16, 2021

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Institutional Decision-Making Power Drops, Yet Departmental Power Rises

In recent decades, faculty influence increased over departmental and programmatic choices, yet their authority dropped in institutional-level matters like the overall budget. This mixed finding comes from the 2021 Shared Governance Survey by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), its first national snapshot on faculty authority in two decades.

July 29, 2021

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Campaign Pushes for Reauthorization of Higher Education Act

On Monday, the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers launched a national joint campaign, in collaboration with the Roosevelt Institute, called “A New Deal for Higher Education,” which advocates for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and large-scale federal investment in the higher education sector.

February 10, 2021

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Female Faculty Continue to Face Stubborn Wage Gap and Underrepresentation in Tenured Positions

Women, and particularly women of color, continue to face stubborn disparities in academia, according to a December data “snapshot” analysis by the American Association of University Professors.

December 17, 2020

COVID-19

Officials and Advocates Seek to Halt Title IX Rule Changes Amid COVID-19 Disruptions

Three Senators joined 18 state attorneys general and a leading academic association to urge the Department of Education and the Office of Management and Budget to suspend changes to Title IX rules on dating violence, domestic abuse and stalking. Citing the closures of schools and colleges around the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic and […]

April 6, 2020

Students

AAUP Opposes Proposed Rule Restricting Collective Bargaining For Many Graduate Students

The American Association of University Professors came out against a proposed federal rule that would restrict collective bargaining for some graduate student workers. The rule asserts that students who also serve as teaching or research assistants at private colleges or universities should not count as employees and therefore cannot unionize under the National Labor Relations […]

January 16, 2020

News Roundup

Faculty Rally Around Female Professor in Pay Discrimination Case

The American Association of University Professors filed an amicus brief supporting Dr. Jennifer Freyd, a psychology professor who sued the University of Oregon for paying her less than male faculty members in her department. A district court previously ruled against her, concluding that she didn’t perform work equal to her male colleagues because of differences […]

October 3, 2019

Faculty & Staff

Growing Proportion of Part-Time Faculty Portends Problems

The decline in tenured and tenure-track college and university faculty and the increase in nontenured full-time, part-time and adjunct instructors — a decades-long trend that shows no sign of slowing — is likely to have widespread impact across the higher education landscape.

July 30, 2019

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University of North Iowa Faculty Votes to Re-certify Union Faculty Chapter

The United Faculty of the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) has recently completed its first union recertification election with 85 percent faculty support after a 2017 bill significantly changed Iowa’s collective bargaining law for state employees. The 2017 bill passed by the Iowa House and Senate limited the required and permissive matters of bargaining as […]

October 31, 2018

Faculty & Staff

3 Organizations Assert Support of Faculty Free Speech

As the school year begins at most college campuses, three major academic organizations are making clear their commitment to free speech for university professors.

September 7, 2017

Community Colleges

AAUP Adds 2 Institutions, Removes 2 From Censure List

The American Association of University Professors’ censure list, currently composed of 56 institutions, is a compilation of college administrations that have been cited for violating principles and standards of academic freedom.

June 19, 2017

Faculty & Staff

AAUP May Soon End Censure of U. of Illinois Over Salaita Case

URBANA, Ill. — An academic censure of the University of Illinois over a professor who lost his job offer after a series of anti-Israel tweets could end next month, officials with the American Association of University Professors say. Delegates to the national AAUP meeting in June are scheduled to take up the Steven Salaita case […]

May 7, 2017