“So the university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to understand how to evaluate the seriousness of truth. Those are incredibly important lessons, and only the teachers’ academic freedom can protect them” (Joan Scott)

Policies on Academic Freedom, Dismissal for Cause, Financial Exigency, and Program Discontinuance

Hans-Joerg Tiede, Senior Program Officer and Researcher, AAUP

July 2020


In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education

Subcommittee of AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure

October, 2019


Equity Beyond COVID-19: Revising Tenure and Promotion Standards

Simon Feldman and Afshan Jafar

Academe, Vol. 107. Number 1 (Winter 2021)

Do Adjuncts Have Academic Freedom? or Why Tenure Matters

Henry Reichman

Academe, Vol. 107. Number 1 (Winter 2021)

Are Endowments Damaging Colleges and Universities?

Kelly Grotke

The American Prospect, February 12th, 2021

Dear Administrator: To Protect Your Faculty from Right-Wing Attacks, Follow the Money

Isaac Kamola

AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom, Vol. 10 (2019)

Compulsory Civility and the Necessity of (Un)Civil Disobedience

Judy Rohrer

AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom, Vol. 10 (2019)