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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UNC Charlotte AAUP Initiatives
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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New Report on the State of Academic Governance in Community Colleges
The new AAUP Community College Shared Governance Survey, conducted in partnership with the Center for the Study of Community Colleges, provides information about what practices prevail nationally across twenty-six areas of institutional decision-making and how they compare with normative standards of academic governance in community colleges, filling an important and often overlooked void in the higher education governance literature.
Statement on the Departure of University of Virginia President James Ryan
The National AAUP stands with the University of Virginia Chapter of the AAUP, the Virginia AAUP Conference, and the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in condemning the Department of Justice’s assault on the independence and integrity of the University of Virginia.
Muhlenberg Censured; Albertus Magnus Removed from Censure
The AAUP’s governing Council voted to place Muhlenberg College on the AAUP's list of censured administrations. The censure is based on the findings of a report of an AAUP committee of inquiry regarding actions by the Muhlenberg administration initially to suspend and eventually to dismiss Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Additionally, the Council also removed from censure the administration of Albertus Magnus College in Connecticut.
AAUP, Allies File Suit Over Mass Termination of Science Grants
The abrupt cancellation of NSF grants damages critical research in American higher education and has repercussions far beyond academia.
New AAUP Report Highlights Trends in Faculty Compensation and other Key Economic Indicators
The AAUP today released our Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2024–25. This report presents findings from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey and other key economic trends related to US higher education. The report includes eighteen summary tables and three appendixes that list survey results by institution.
Trump's Travel Ban Is Discriminatory
Those being excluded from the US will doubtless include faculty and students who seek to travel here to conduct academic work. Their exclusion is at odds with fundamental AAUP principles and with our nation’s historic commitment to the free exchange of ideas.
AAUP President Calls for Explanation on UNC–Chapel Hill Tenure Delay
The AAUP calls on UNC–Chapel Hill’s chancellor and board of trustees to provide a full explanation of why faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Law, and the Kenan-Flagler Business School did not receive tenure votes according to schedule. In the interest of the public good and the health of UNC–Chapel Hill, we also call on the chancellor and board of trustees to affirm a commitment to the tenure system and academic freedom.
AAUP Condemns Assault and Arrest of David Huerta
The AAUP condemns the brutal assault and illegal arrest of David Huerta, vice-president of the California Federation of Labor Unions and president of SEIU California and SEIU-USSW. Huerta’s arrest while bearing witness to the wildly cruel and destructive attacks on immigrant workers by Trump’s masked paramilitary agents underscores how Trump’s authoritarian, irresponsible, and xenophobic deportation policies are wreaking chaos in communities from coast to coast.
Trump’s Attack on Accreditation Continues Dangerous Assault on American Higher Ed
The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses. Once again, the Trump Education Department is trampling academic freedom and forcing students, faculty, and staff at Columbia to answer to one and only one person: Donald J. Trump. This week’s aggression against workers and students at Columbia adds accreditation to the arsenal of weapons being used by the Trump administration to bully colleges and universities.
Duke Must Involve Faculty In Any Layoff Decisions
When wide-ranging program cuts and terminations of faculty appointment are a possibility, AAUP standards insist that the faculty must be involved in deliberation and decisions at every stage of the process, beginning with a determination that a state of financial exigency exists. The Duke faculty and staff were not consulted but were summarily informed that the institution would lose librarians, researchers, and other staff members, severely damaging research programs and the education of students. Many Duke faculty are concerned that these layoffs will specifically target the university’s renowned programs in the humanities and social sciences. According to our AAUP members, a lack of transparency and new policies limiting free speech have further exacerbated a campus climate of fear.