AAUP Archive

PERSPECTIVES: Shared Governance Under More Stress During COVID Era

AAUP REPORT: “We found no evidence that AAUP-supported policies failed in any of the cases under investigation. Indeed, at most …

by Future U/ August 5, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Historic AAUP Study Finds Shared Governance Progress at Unit Level, Devolution at Institutional Level

AAUP Study, Shared Governance, 1971-2021; “At most institutions, faculty authority is consistent with AAUP-recommended governance standards in decision-making about programmatic, …

by Future U/ July 31, 2021/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: FIRE, AAUP Clash on Free Speech at U. Oklahoma

Groups take opposing stands in response to the approach taken during an in-service education program for faculty. Read how and …

by Future U/ July 4, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: More Warning Signs from AAUP on Neoliberal Influences in Higher Education

“Some institutions took the COVID-19 crisis as an “opportunity to turbocharge the corporate model,” says a new report from the American …

by Future U/ May 26, 2021/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberalism and the Increase in the Size of Higher Ed Administration

Professor Beth Baker: “It erodes the role of faculty, staff, and students in decision-making and shared governance, and does so …

by Future U/ October 12, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Shared Governance, An Issue at Loyola (IL) and Tulsa

Loyola faculty express concerns about health insurance, Tulsa faculty vote no confidence in president and provost about an academic reorganization …

by Future U/ November 19, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: “Downsides of Excluding the Public from the Search Process Should Be Self-Evident”

Closed searches rely extensively on what trustees learn from search firms. How well do they do the job? A University …

by Future U/ May 10, 2019/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: AAUP Issues Statement On The Direction Of Gender and Gender Studies

“The effort to establish a legal definition of gender as binary could lead to denying research funding to scholars and to impugning …

by Future U/ November 10, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Is AAUP Losing Its Bite?

From The Chronicle: “The AAUP maintains a list of college administrations that it has censured to pressure them (and higher …

by Future U/ July 28, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

ANNOUNCEMENT: Academic Freedom Resources List From AAUP

All statements are available on the AAUP’s website and in the eleventh edition of the AAUP “Redbook,” formally titled Policy Documents and …

by Future U/ March 1, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

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by Future U/ December 14, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Academeblog.Org Features FutureU Site

Thank you, Martin Kich. editor of Academe Blog, the blog of Academe, published by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Read more …

by Future U/ February 27, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: AAUP Presidential Address on the Corporatization of Higher Education

Well worth the read: what higher ed has become, why it’s a problem, and what we can do to respond.

by Future U/ November 30, 2015/ Articles, Perspectives/