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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.
- The AAUP and Texas AAUP-AFT sued Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the board of regents over two system memoranda that stifled debate, undermined students’ education, and sidelined faculty expertise.
- The AAUP, AFT Connecticut, and the national AFT call on Yale University to reject any negotiated settlement that would compromise academic freedom, shared governance, due process, or institutional independence.
- The approval of accelerated three-year bachelor’s degrees at Suffolk and Merrimack Universities in Massachusetts threatens academic integrity.
- The AAUP announced the formation of a Committee of Inquiry tasked with examining the multiple serious violations of academic freedom and the dismantling of shared faculty governance across Texas public universities. The Committee of Inquiry will gather and analyze public […]
- Throughout her career, longtime AAUP leader Flo Hatcher worked on many levels to better the working conditions of faculty, especially faculty in contingent positions, and to ensure that higher education served the common good. At the national level, Flo served […]
- American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement
- The AAUP and AFT condemn the federal indictment of fifteen Minnesotans for defending their community during the violent ICE occupation of Minneapolis earlier this year.
- The 2026 AAUP Higher Ed Summit and Biennial Meeting was held this past weekend, June 10–14 in Chicago, Illinois.
- Five faculty activists were recognized with AAUP awards at this year's AAUP Higher Ed Summit and Biennial Meeting.
- One at-large member and five regional members were elected to the AAUP's governing Council at the 2026 AAUP Biennial Association Meeting.
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.
