AAUP Finds FBI Statement Inadequate

Washington, D.C.—On Tuesday, March 7, two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies working with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force visited Pomona College professor of history Miguel Tinker-Salas at his office and without appointment. Tinker-Salas is a prominent critic of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. More...

UC Looks to Donors to Pay Executives

San Francisco Chronicle - In their most sweeping salary proposal in recent memory, University of California officials want to tap private donors to boost the salaries of their highest-paid executives -- who already make more than $350,000 a year. More...

Women Faculty: Still Trailing After All These Years

Washington, D.C.—The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has released an update on gender equity in academia. The sad story is that the 2003-04 figures show little improvement in the salary gap over twenty-five years of higher education history. More. . .

Faculty Association Speaks Out on Three Top Issues

Washington, D.C.—In Washington, D.C. last Saturday, the annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) adopted resolutions on three issues of concern to faculty and others in the academic community. The resolutions address the right of graduate student employees to choose representation by a collective bargaining agent, concern over increased attacks on the academic freedom of teachers and scholars across the nation, and the teaching of evolution. More...

Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work

"Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work" is the theme of the November-December issue of Academe. This special issue of the magazine, published with the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, documents an academic culture biased against caregiving and shows how the forced "choice" between an academic career and family commitments has disadvantaged women in the past. The full issue is available on the AAUP Web site.

Faculty Association Speaks Out on Three Top Issues

Washington, D.C.— Meeting in Washington, D.C., the national Council of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) adopted new policy statements on three issues of concern to faculty and others in the academic community. The policy statements address corporate funding of academic research, background investigations on faculty, and academic freedom and electronic communications. More. . .

Faculty Association Adopts New Government Relations Priorities

Washington, D.C. – The American Association of University Professors has adopted “Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom” as its top priority for its legislative work in the 109th Congress. Citing “politically inspired” intrusions on campuses and in scientific policy development, the Association called for support of measures that would protect the integrity of teaching, scholarly inquiry, and other academic activities. More. . .

AAUP Member Honored by Collective Bargaining Congress

Susan Meisenhelder received the Marilyn Steinberg Award, given annually at the Collective Bargaining Congress’s annual meeting to the AAUP member who best demonstrates a concern for human rights, courage, persistence, political foresight, and collective bargaining skills. Meisenhelder, an English professor at California State University-San Bernadino, served from 1999 to 2003 as president of the California Faculty Association. In the last contract negotiated under her leadership, lecturers with six or more years of service gained the right to receive three-year contracts.

As College Costs Go Up, Support for Teaching and Research Goes Down

New York City — The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) reported its concern about the rising costs of tuition and fees and the diminishing support for instruction in our nation’s colleges and universities. The Association observed several troubling facts and emerging trends. More. . .

AAUP Comments on Faculty Background Checks

The American Association of University Professors released a report titled “Verification and Trust: Background Investigations Preceding Faculty Appointments,” formulated by the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. In its report, occasioned by the increasing frequency and invasiveness of personnel investigations on campuses, the committee calls for a renewed sense of proportion in such inquiries. More. . .