AAUP Presents
by The AAUP
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A podcast by the American Association of University Professors on issues related to academic freedom, shared governance, and higher education. Visit aaup.org for more news and information.
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- Extorted Compliance: What the Trump Pay-to-Play Model Means for Higher Ed · 1 h 1 min · Season 6 Episode 1In the episode we discuss the AAUP report, “Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance,” which exposes how the Trump…
- Organizing Lessons from Resisting ICE on Campus · 52 minOn today’s episode of Academic Freedom on the Line, we’re talking about students, labor, migration, and what happens at the intersection of all those categories. We talk about…
- Title VI vs. Academic Freedom · 1 h 0 min · Season 5 Episode 12This episode of the special series “Academic Freedom on the Line” includes an excerpt from the webinar announcing the release of the AAUP’s Report On Title VI, Discrimination…
- Defending Academic Freedom: Learning to Resist · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 11The 9th episode of our special series “Academic Freedom on the Line” is a conversation among 4 authors who contributed to the recently published University Keywords, a volume on…
- Faculty on the Front Lines (Intro) · 17 min · Season 5 Episode 10In this special episode of our series Academic Freedom on the Line, Vineeta Singh interviews Anna Feder, an organizer, curator, and cinema exhibition consultant who serves as the…
- AAUP v. Rubio: The AAUP Takes the Trump Administration to Court · 49 min · Season 5 Episode 9Update: Judge William G . Young ruled in favor of the AAUP and its fellow plaintiffs in the case. The full ruling is here. In this episode we discuss case AAUP v. Rubio, the…
- Understanding Governing Boards & Academic Freedom · 45 min · Season 5 Episode 8A new episode of our special series Academic Freedom on the Line with the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom focuses on university governing boards and their…
- Academic Freedom on the Line: Science Funding · 37 min · Season 5 Episode 8We’ve all heard about the changes to federal research funding since the beginning of the Trump administration. This episode of our special series Academic Freedom on the Line…
- Academic Freedom: Thinking Transnationally · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 7This episode of our special series in partnership with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom zooms out from the “Trump versus Harvard” headlines to situate attacks on US…
- Educational (e)quality on the Line · 36 min · Season 5 Episode 6This episode of our special series “Academic Freedom on the Line” takes a look at accreditation, a seemingly complex but essential mechanism for safeguarding both the quality of…
- Academic Freedom On the Line: The Students · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 5In this episode, we speak with a coalition of student leaders actively organizing against state-level DEI bans in Texas and Kentucky. This is the third episode in the special…
- Public Life on the Line · 33 min · Season 5 Episode 4This is the second episode of the limited series AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line. Our guest Dr. Stephanie Hall is a leading expert on college accountability and the…
- Academic Freedom on the Line · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 3This episode kicks off a new limited series hosted by the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF), AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line. CDAF serves as a…
- Anticipatory Obedience: 'To Yield a Little is to Run the Risk of Sacrificing All' · 52 min · Season 5 Episode 2In this episode we discuss the AAUP's statement "Against Anticipatory Obedience" which offers guidelines about how to respond to attacks on higher ed like those being launched by…
- On Institutional Neutrality · 39 min · Season 5 Episode 1In this episode we discuss the AAUP's new statement On Institutional Neutrality. As college and university communities begin to suffer the consequences of unchecked power, the…
- The Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project: What Faculty Can Do · 19 min · Season 4 Episode 8In this episode we discuss the Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project, a student voter registration project that aims to increase student voter registration…
- New AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts: What It Really Means · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 7In this episode we discuss academic boycotts and the AAUP's revised policy on boycotts, released this August. We’ll hear more about the statement, how it came about, and where it…
- The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965 · 36 min · Season 4 Episode 6In this episode, I discuss the AAUP’s involvement in the Black Freedom Struggle in the 1950s and 1960s as it related to higher ed with Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, dean of the…
- The Campus Protests: A View from the Ground · 51 min · Season 4 Episode 5As campus protests in support of Palestine are met with often violent and repressive crackdowns, we talk to three faculty members, all AAUP members, who report on what's…
- Political Interference in Higher Ed: Escalations, Attacks, and the Billionaires Behind It · 53 min · Season 4 Episode 4As violent, militarized responses to protests on campuses across the country continue, in this episode we look at how political interference in higher education has expanded in…







