AAUP Foundation

Special Report on the UNC System

The AAUP Foundation funded the AAUP's groundbreaking report on the University of North Carolina system. A special committee led by Nicholas Fleisher and Afshan Jafar documented instances of broken governance, academic freedom protections in growing jeopardy, and patterns of institutional racism and political interference.

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Journal of Academic Freedom

The AAUP Foundation provides essential support for the AAUP's Journal of Academic Freedom. The 2022 volume featured articles responding to the proliferation of legislation seeking to ban or restrict teaching about race and racism.

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Welcome to the AAUP Foundation

The AAUP Foundation is the charitable arm of the AAUP enterprise. With the AAUP (a professional association), it shares a commitment to academic freedom and shared governance, defines fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and ensures higher education’s contribution to the common good.

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Foundation Grant Opportunities

Do you need financial support for a legal case implicating rights of national significance in higher education? Are you developing a project that advances academic freedom or illuminates its role in a democratic society? The AAUP Foundation welcomes inquiries and applications for our quarterly grant deadlines on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31.

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Featured Grant Supporting Faculty As part of his ongoing Faculty First Responders project, supported by grants from the Foundation's Academic Freedom Fund, Trinity College political scientist Isaac Kamola has created a website with resources for faculty to learn about Campus Reform, its use of students to write articles that stir up conservative outrage against higher education, and how to respond to harassment that follows such coverage. Read More » Featured Grant Protecting Governance The AAUP Foundation provided financial support for the AAUP’s investigation of the crisis in academic governance that has occurred in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It's the broadest investigation the AAUP has conducted since its 1956 report on attacks on academic freedom at eighteen institutions during the McCarthy era. Read More »		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. Read More » 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. Read More »

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