The AAUP has turned 100! Join the AAUP Foundation in celebrating a century of academic freedom.
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Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships, an AAUP report published in book form by the AAUP Foundation, is now available for purchase from booksellers and the University of Illinois Press.
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The new AAUP Foundation is the charitable arm of the AAUP enterprise, which also includes the AAUP (a professional association), and the AAUP-CBC (a labor union). All three share a commitment to academic freedom and shared governance and to ensuring higher education’s contribution to the common good.
DonationsCollective Bargaining Chapters Give GenerouslyThe AAUP Foundation is pleased to announce generous gifts of $5,000 each from the Wright State University and Cuyahoga Community College AAUP chapters. |
Featured SupportersSidney P. Albert Revocable TrustSidney P. Albert was an AAUP member for 65 years (1946–2011), and had a long and illustrious career of service to the Association. |
Featured ProgramsAcademic FreedomThe AAUP Foundation supports projects that safeguard academic freedom to encourage free inquiry, promote the expansion of knowledge, and create an environment in which learning and research can flourish, thereby enhancing the quality of higher education and benefiting society. Shared GovernanceGovernance of higher education institutions traditionally has been a responsibility shared by faculty, administrators, and trustees. The AAUP Foundation supports work that increases the understanding and efficacy of shared governance in colleges and universities. |
Recent GrantAAUP Foundation Academic Freedom Fund Approves GrantThe Foundation concurred with the AAUP’s assessment that the current status of Professor Salaita, who was barred from teaching courses to which he had already been assigned, constitutes a suspension while the dismissal remains under scrutiny by the UIUC Academic Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure and has approved a grant of $5,000. |
Featured GrantsLegal Defense FundA Legal Defense Fund grant supports Professors Jeffrey MacSwan and Kellie Rolstad in their lawsuit against the Arizona Board of Regents for copyright infringement and injunctive relief |
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