UNC Charlotte AAUP Mission Statement

The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.

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Living Wage

to promote the economic security and rights of faculty, graduate students, staff, and hourly workers, all of whom are essential to the university

Shared Governance

to preserve higher education’s core mission and values through genuine shared governance

Academic Freedom

to protect academic freedom for the purpose of ensuring the university's mission to enhance the common good

Resisting corporatization

to support educators, not corporate leaders, in guiding the UNC system and its campuses

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    2025 News

    EO on Accreditation Opens the Door for Rampant Corruption and Political Interference

    President Donald Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, said and done by college students and instructors. Threats to remove accreditors from their roles are transparent attempts to consolidate more power in the hands of the Trump administration in order to stifle teaching and research. These attacks are aimed at removing educational decision-making from educators and reshaping higher education to fit an authoritarian political agenda.

    Harvard AAUP and National AAUP Sue Trump Administration to Block Unlawful Funding Cuts

    The national AAUP and our Harvard chapter filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block the Trump administration from demanding that Harvard University restrict speech and restructure its core operations or else face the cancellation of $8.7 billion in federal funding for the university and its affiliated hospitals.

    AAUP Briefs Defend an Independent Legal System, Reject Ideological Deportations

    This week, the AAUP and allies filed two separate friend-of-the-court briefs. With the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, the AAUP submitted a brief supporting the law firm Perkins Coie in its battle against the Trump administration. Perkins Coie was the subject of an executive order which limited the law firm’s ability to represent government contractors and access federal buildings. Unlike some of the biggest US law firms, who have struck deals with the Trump administration, Perkins Coie sued the Trump administration. The AAUP’s brief focuses on the harms that will be caused if lawyers are afraid to take on cases or make certain arguments for fear of retaliation by the government, and discusses the dangerous position taken by the administration through its casual invocation of national security to justify all manner of actions and to push back against robust judicial review. 

    Thirty faculty groups, including seventeen AAUP chapters, organized to join an amicus brief urging a preliminary injunction against ideological deportations of students and scholars. AAUP members from public and private institutions, from community colleges and research universities, from Texas to Minnesota, California to New Hampshire, and points in between are exercising solidarity to protect students and co-workers.

    2024–25 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey Results

    Preliminary findings for the 2024–25 Faculty Compensation Survey are now available, featuring institution-level appendices, summary tables, and explanation of statistical data.

    Attack on NEH Is Another Authoritarian Move

    The Trump administration has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been advised of plans to slash staff by 70-80 percent. The Department of Government Efficiency is reportedly rescinding grants that have already been awarded, thwarting the will of Congress and upending worthwhile projects that improve our lives. It’s yet another authoritarian move to control what people in our country see, say, and think.

    Given that this agency’s budget is less than 0.01 percent of the US budget, it’s clearer than ever that the real attack is on ordinary people and our ability to know and understand the world around us. Congress has the power to stop Trump’s power grab and must act to do so.

    A Win for Faculty at Nevada State University

    Faculty at Nevada State University are celebrating today after winning the right to collectively bargain for a safe workplace, for faculty voice in decision-making through shared governance, and to address low and stagnant wages. The American Arbitration Association certified that an overwhelming majority of the roughly 120 faculty voted "yes" in the in-person election that took place April 1-2, by a vote of 104 to 8.

    Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations

    In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged Title VI violations, the AAUP has written to college and university general counsels to clarify that they are under no legal compulsion to comply with such a request. We strongly urge them not to comply, given the serious risks and harms of doing so.

    Academic Freedom and Attacks on Disciplinary Knowledge

    Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure reinforces the AAUP’s March 14 statement and highlights the specific dangers to academic freedom and shared governance in the Trump administration’s demand that the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department at Columbia University be placed into receivership and that drastic changes should be made to student discipline, admissions, and other processes.

    AAUP President Todd Wolfson on Illegal Termination of Union Rights

    Like so many recent actions, this is the move of an authoritarian, and shows the Trump administration’s fundamental disregard for working people. It is also a blatantly retaliatory move, against federal workers and against unions, which have led the opposition to defend our communities and defeat the Project 2025 agenda.

    Apparently, President Trump believes his job to be stripping rights from workers and students, persecuting immigrants, muzzling critics, and handing the governance of our country over to his billionaire cronies.

    We know what our job is: to defend our campuses and communities and to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom, research that saves lives, and the institutions that provide crucial services that benefit every person residing in the US.

    Victory at Ohio University!

    After months of delays, negotiations, and one-on-one engagement, faculty at Ohio University won a decisive victory on Monday as an overwhelming majority voted YES to being represented in collective bargaining by the United Academics of Ohio University, AAUP/AFT.