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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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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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.
AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in pro-Palestinian protests and other protected First Amendment activities.
Faculty Unions Sue Trump Administration: No Halting Science Research to Suppress Speech
The AAUP and the AFT today sued the Trump administration on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research in an attempt to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. While the Trump administration has been slashing funding since its first days in office, this move represents a stunning new tactic: using cuts as a cudgel to coerce a private institution to adopt restrictive speech codes and allow government control over teaching and learning
Educators and Unions Unite to Challenge Trump Attempt to Dismantle Department of Ed
Today, the AAUP and a coalition including educators, school districts, and unions filed a legal action against the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education and mass firings that will decimate the crucial services the department provides to every American. This lawsuit is the first filed since President Trump’s executive order attempting to shutter the department.
Joint Statement of AAUP Chapters Regarding the Ongoing Crisis at Columbia University
A joint statement from AAUP chapters condemning the impoundment of $400 million in research funds and ICE's targeting of Columbia students and alumni involved in pro-Palestine protests.
Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students with multiyear suspensions, degree revocations, and expulsions is an outrageous assault on freedom of speech, student and faculty safety, shared governance, and free inquiry and thought.
AAUP Condemns Trump Administration’s Punitive Weaponization of Federal Grant Funding at Columbia
The Trump administration has taken the unprecedented move of cancelling $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University in alleged response to “inaction by Columbia’s administration on antisemitism.” This heavy-handed partisan intrusion into Columbia’s academic, research, and health care operations will damage students’ education, stop progress toward lifesaving biomedical therapies, and harm patients being treated in Columbia’s hospitals. As we are seeing with the Trump administration's reckless cuts to NIH research funding, the result of this defunding will cause real harm to everyday Americans. Trump’s cuts to biomedical research kill.
Dismantling the Department of Education Would Hasten Us into a New Dark Age
The department has played a crucial role in the pathway to higher education for millions of Americans by providing and administering student loans, grants, and work-study programs. Without it, access to education for working class Americans will decrease. Funding for college education will be stripped away and programs for students with disabilities and students living in poverty will be eviscerated. Enforcement of civil rights laws against race- or sex-based discrimination in higher education will disappear.