BY HENRY REICHMAN AND IRENE MULVEY The following statement was issued by Henry Reichman, chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and Irene Mulvey, AAUP president. The outgoing Trump administration’s 1776 Report, released on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is an attack on the socially progressive and antiracist goals that King worked…
BY IRENE MULVEY, PAUL DAVIS, AND CHRISTOPHER SINCLAIR AAUP leadership issued the following statement today. Two days ago, while white supremacist, Trump-supporting insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol, we wrote that we were appalled by the assault and noted that the current administration’s actions—over the long term but especially since the election of Joe Biden in November—are…
BY THE AAUP The AAUP is appalled by the assault on the US Capitol today. The current administration’s attacks on truth, inflammatory rhetoric, and baseless objections to the result of a free and fair election have now led to violence, highlighting the precarious state of our democracy. We look forward to working with the new…
BY IRENE MULVEY In a December 7 virtual listening session on higher education with the Biden-Harris transition team and other higher ed advocacy organizations, AAUP president Irene Mulvey delivered remarks about planning for a better future for higher education; supporting students, faculty, and staff; and repealing Trump administration policies. Thank you for inviting the AAUP…
BY GLENN COLBY AND CHELSEA FOWLER Today the AAUP released an in-depth look at the makeup and salaries of full-time faculty members in US higher education. Using data collected by the US Department of Education, this snapshot provides an updated demographic profile of full-time faculty by academic rank and institution type, highlighting disparities among women…
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BY IRENE MULVEY The following letter from AAUP president Irene Mulvey was emailed to AAUP members on November 10: The voters have spoken. Unprecedented voter turnout has affirmed the strength of our democracy. Like others who value education and truth, science and facts, Black lives and human rights, we breathed a collective sigh of relief…
BY THE AAUP On October 28, the AAUP sent a letter to New York University president Andrew Hamilton to express concern about the cancellation by Zoom of an October 23 event hosted by the NYU chapter of the AAUP and co-sponsored by NYU departments and institutes. The text of the letter appears below. Dear President…
BY PATTY O’NEILL The op-ed below was originally published in the CT Mirror, and we are posting it here with the permission of the author. Our communities have been shaken to their core. COVID-19 has taken loved ones, jobs have vanished, and racial injustice continues unabated. But we have also witnessed the everyday heroism of ordinary people.…