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

wooden gavel laying across the AAUP's Policy Documents and Reports, a book with a red cover and gold lettering with gray book and wooden desk beneathProtecting 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.

 

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Featured Grant

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The AAUP Foundation will underwrite the costs of a special committee report on a pattern of violations of principles of academic governance and persistent structural racism in the University of North Carolina system. The report will consider, among other issues, the mishandled tenure case of Nikole Hannah-Jones and the influence of the state legislature on the systemwide board of governors and campus boards of trustees. 

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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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