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Recent AAUP-CSU Campaigns
The following excerpts describe a few of the many recent activities undertaken by the AAUP-CSU. Please click the links to learn more about what we are doing and how you can help!
Recent National AAUP Campaigns
Below are a few of the recent campaign and wins by the national AAUP. Click any of the boxes to go to the full stories in the national press, or read more at AAUP in the News.
- AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, January 24.
- We urge OU to affirm the right of instructors to teach, grade, and research without political interference, unlawful mandates, or external pressures that hinder academic freedom.
- The national AAUP, alongside AAUP–Penn, joined a coalition of Jewish students and scholars to intervene in a Trump administration lawsuit seeking the University of Pennsylvania to disclose the private information of its Jewish faculty and students.
- Are you passionate about higher education and academic freedom? If you or a colleague are interested, please nominate yourself or that colleague as a candidate for AAUP national office!
- Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. Barring a foundational philosopher who is a cornerstone of Western thought because his work touches on race or gender is a blatant attempt at thought policing that […]
- The AAUP stands in solidarity with the family of Renee Nicole Good and all communities that have suffered under ICE occupation.
- Join us in opposing the UNC System’s disastrous doxing database policy by signing a petition from the North Carolina AAUP state conference.
- The 2026 issue of the AAUP's Journal of Academic Freedom seeks submissions on initiatives that have been pursued, strategies that have been deployed, coalitions that have been built, and work that remains to be done in the fight for academic […]
- A year-end update from the AAUP's Committee on Historically Black Institutions and Scholars of Color.
- Rather than heeding calls to pause the search until a fair and transparent process can be initiated, the board regrettably chose to push through an appointment without a duly constituted membership. This undermines the legitimacy of today’s appointment.
Academe Blog
Want to learn even more, check out the recent editorials on the Academy Blog. Academe Blog is a production of Academe magazine and focuses on issues in higher education. The blog and Academe are published by the American Association of University Professors, but opinions published in them do not necessarily represent the policies of the AAUP.
