The AAUP and a large coalition of other higher education groups have issued an open letter read more >

The AAUP filed an amicus brief last night supporting a challenge to a statute and policy in Texas that compel faculty to permit concealed handguns in college classrooms. read more >

The AAUP's Assembly of State Conferences (ASC) is seeking nominations for the following positions on the ASC Executive Committee: Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary. read more >

The tax bill would have drastic negative impact on graduate students read more >

Concealed guns in classrooms violates faculty member's academic freedom read more >

Last month, the Board of Directors of Universities and Colleges (AGB) issued a statement on shared governance. read more >

The AAUP, along with other higher education groups, strongly opposes proposed changes included in tax legislation being voted on by congress this week. read more >

University of Chicago, NLRB Case No 13-RC-198325 read more >

Changes were modeled on those imposed on public sector employees in Wisconsin in 2011. This makes the work of all unions in Iowa much more difficult read more >

A more than monthlong strike of faculty at Ontario's 24 public two-year colleges will continue read more >

Plan targets large endowments of private colleges and eliminates many deductions benefiting student loan borrowers and graduate students. read more >

In the treacherous world of finance, where investors confront biased advice, hidden costs and onerous fees, one investment giant seems to stand apart read more >

Non-tenure-track faculty members - adjuncts, full-timers and potdoctoral fellows - at Fordham University voted 16-to-1 to form a union read more >

The Wright State University AAUP chapter, the faculty union representing full-time faculty at WSU, has adopted an amendment read more >

As protests unfolded at universities across the Northeast, graduate students seeking union recognition face an NLRB that might no longer be sympathetic to their cause. read more >

Republicans in Congress released their proposed overhaul of the nation's tax laws on Thursday read more >

Republican tax plan would cut off key source of borrowing and impose new taxes on wealthy institutions. Some see historic shift in view of elite universities from a public good worthy of sheltering from taxes to a source of funds for government. read more >

Neither Penn State nor Johns Hopkins’s Peabody Institute enjoyed particularly strong shared governance within the last decade. Recent reform efforts hold promise. read more >

Could postdoc unions be the next big thing in collective bargaining among academics? Recent filing at University of Washington could be beginning of a new round of organizing. read more >

As public colleges become the staging grounds of a national battle over speech and security, campus leaders have searched for ways read more >