AAUP Foundation

The AAUP Foundation is organized to fund the charitable and educational purposes of the AAUP, including supporting principles of academic freedom and the quality of higher education in a free and democratic society. 

 

Featured Grant

Supporting Faculty

Grant recipient Corinne Weisgerber said, "I want to thank the AAUP Foundation for providing support at a time when both my and my husband's livelihoods were shattered on the same day." The AAUP Foundation's Academic Freedom Fund provided temporary financial aid for Weisgerber and Shannan Butler, summarily dismissed from their tenured faculty positions at St. Edward's University in Texas.

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Featured Grant

Training Student Advocates

The AAUP Foundation is a proud supporter of Scholars at Risk's Student Advocacy Program, which gives students the opportunity to develop research and leadership skills while advocating on behalf of imprisoned scholars and promoting academic freedom. One participant from Carleton University in Canada said the Student Advocacy Seminar "re-defined what was possible" and was "inspiring and motivating."

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Featured Programs

Academic Freedom

The 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.

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Legal Defense

The AAUP Foundation supports faculty members in cases at the trial and appellate levels that implicate important legal rights, involve legal issues of national significance in higher education, and affect the careers of academics.

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