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

Standing by Faculty

"When the Community College of Aurora fired me for protesting against being forced to lower my standards, the AAUP stood up for me. With academic freedom under ever-increasing threat, the work being done by the AAUP and the AAUP Foundation’s support for that work are critical and deserving of the support of everyone who values higher education and the freedom to teach.” —Nathanial Bork, grant recipient whose dismissal was the subject of a Foundation-supported AAUP investigation

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Featured Grant

Supporting Threatened Scholars

The AAUP Foundation is a proud supporter of Scholars at Risk's Scholar Transition Project for international scholars affected by political upheaval. An Academic Freedom Fund grant "has enabled nearly 50 scholars and academic leaders from 55 universities to participate in training workshops—helping scholars adjust to and engage in new academic communities and environments, and guiding academic leaders to become excellent host universities.”

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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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