Faculty Compensation Survey The AAUP publishes faculty compensation survey results in the spring for the current academic year and a full report in the summer.

NEW: Preliminary findings released today from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty decreased & remain below pre-pandemic levels.

The FCS is the largest independent source of data on faculty salaries. Check out preliminary findings below.

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“Professor Shelton has courage. He is not afraid of losing his job for saying exactly what he thinks. Through the efforts of the AAUP, he is secure from dismissal on that score. If faculty were made like a sales force in ease of hiring & firing, it would be a death-blow to free speech" -- Dec. 1927

Yale students support “the right to teach without fear of censorship or reprisal"

-- Daniel HoSang @yaleaaup.bsky.social

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UConn faculty call out closure of small programs, say they fear bigger cuts ahead University of Connecticut’s continued evaluation of small programs with low enrollment is troubling several university professors who say that the review process lacks transparency, may impact majors, and contributes to fears of wider cuts …

“If we want to be considered a flagship university where top researchers want to come, where students think they’re going to get a great education, then we have to maintain breadth--and breadth requires programs small and large"

--Jeremy Pressman of @uconnaaup.bsky.social

“What does the University of Connecticut stand for? What do we want of the flagship university in the state, what should it offer?”

-- Valerie Duffy @uconnaaup.bsky.social on threats to low-enrollment academic programs

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The Fight to Defend Pro-Palestine Speech on Campus Isn’t Over Targeted for pro-Palestine speech, these academics are refusing to back down.

You have this confluence of this right-wing attack machine that had been focusing on higher education for two decades that now is able to move away from the language of race and gender and also weaponize accusations of antisemitism

- Isaac Kamola @aaup.org Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom

Connecticut 3-Year Degree Bill Dies in Committee Advocates are concerned about falling behind neighboring states, but opponents worry about quality and confusing students.

"What we’re doing is making it harder for students to prepare themselves for the future job market in the long run by failing to give them the breadth of skills that they’ll need."

-- Wynn Gadkar Wilcox, WCSU-AAUP on the limitations of a 90-credit bachelor’s degree

@csuaaup.bsky.social

Why Connecticut could shield college course syllabuses from the public The legislation reflects rising concerns about college material being used to weaponize open records laws to target or harass faculty.

CT House Bill 5550 would exempt course syllabi from disclosure, given the politically-motivated attacks on research and teaching related to DEI and LGBTQ topics.

@uconnaaup.bsky.social testified for the exemption, noting that record requests have been weaponized to target and harass faculty

“We’ve lost a generation of scientists”: US talent turns to France Funding cuts and attacks on academic freedom are driving US researchers to seek opportunities in Europe, as stakeholders warn of “historic damage” to America’s scientific ecosystem.

Amid a flurry of articles on how funding cuts and attacks on academic freedom are pushing US researchers to Europe, @isaackamola.bsky.social emphasizes that a lack of mobility is actually the norm. “That’s why it’s important to be fighting to preserve academic freedom," he says.

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2026-28 CT State Conference Elections CALL FOR NOMINATIONS February, 2026 The 2026-2028 CSC–AAUP Nominating Committee—comprising Chair David Stoloff (CSC–AAUP Immediate Past President, Education Department, ESCU), Member Diana Rios (UC…

want to get involved in state-level AAUP work? RUN FOR OFFICER of the CT State Conference AAUP!

nominations & self-noms due March 14

more info: ctsc-aaup.org/2026-28-ct-s...

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Reality of cuts to UConn research funds emerges. ‘There’s just this aura of awfulness’: professor. In addition to funding availability, the federal government has limited the ability of researchers to receive reimbursement for indirect costs.

“We’re really seeing an intellectual drain in this country"

-- Nathan Alder, of @uconnaaup.bsky.social

UConn has lost $95 million from federal research grant terminations, non-renewals, and loss of new awards. Cuts to academic research will have drastic consequences to the country’s future.

Opinion: No rest for the part-time at CSCU All workers -- including part-timers at CSCU --deserve paid sick days and job security while recovering from illness or a catastrophic personal event.

Every worker deserves paid sick days and guaranteed job security while recovering from illness or a catastrophic personal event. But 58% of @csuaaup.bsky.social courses are taught by part-time workers, who have none of that.

-- Tim Parrish on expanding paid leave benefits to part-time faculty

On Feb 23, @aaup.org hosts a conversation about activism and academic freedom, inspired by legacy of Chandler Davis (fired after upholding his 1A rights). Featuring Isaac Kamola, Henry Reichman, Marjorie Heins + Melanie Tanielian

#academicfreedom @isaackamola.bsky.social @hankreichman.bsky.social

Union membership is on the rise — and our ranks in AAUP are growing as part of this trend.

Organizers across sectors and in higher ed are building the infrastructure to accomplish major wins in the future.

See below for more on 2025 as a banner year for membership growth in the AAUP:

Citations Needed: News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago In this News Brief, we are joined by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Todd Wolfson of the American Association of University Professors to discuss Trump's gutting of higher education, its expansion on previous...

NEW: AAUP President Todd Wolfson & council member Chenjerai Kumanyika sat down with the hosts of the excellent Citations Needed podcast to discuss the acceleration of Trump's assaults on American higher education & how the AAUP is fighting back.

Check it out here:

UConn and CSCU advocates condemn state funding 'disaster,' demand more for public higher education Professors, union leaders and students from public colleges statewide are warning that layoffs, inflated class sizes, program cuts and shrinking services will only get worse without the state's...

"Let's be clear, the strain on higher education is not a failure of our students or our faculty and staff. It is a result of policy choices." "Connecticut has the resources to do better. What we need is the political will."

-- Valerie Duffy, president of @uconnaaup.bsky.social

Coalition concerned about CT antisemitism working group; Jewish, Muslim leaders say discrimination is rampant Many organizations “recognize that antisemitism, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism are interconnected and must be addressed through a human rights framework,” she said.

"given...the Trump administration’s efforts to use allegations of antisemitism to discipline, defund, and attack academic institutions, we should assume that the proposed task force could only serve as a welcome mat to MAGA politicians to target Connecticut schools"

-- Isaac Kamola, @aaup.org

"Our newly launched academic freedom campaign will create opportunities for faculty from every rank and every corner of the university to share their experiences of why academic freedom matters"

-- Daniel HoSang @yaleaaup.bsky.social

The Wesleyan Argus reports on a Middletown ICE protest and rally organized by a coalition of student advocacy groups called “ICE Out" alongside other Middletown, student, and faculty groups including Wesleyan University's AAUP chapter @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social

Dr. Hank Reichman, former chair of AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, emphasizes that the struggle to protect academic freedom and the rights of faculty is part of a larger struggle to defend the rights for everybody in a democratic society.

The Technology That's Taking Your Freedom It's more than AI. A Q&A with Matt Seybold.

@biblioracle.bsky.social has a great interview with @mattseybold.bsky.social on techno-feudalism, mass surveillance, Ed Tech, and what this means for academic freedom, and higher ED more generally. A chilling read. @aaup.org

academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...

CT governor’s budget proposal ‘underfunding’ UConn, senator says “I was disappointed to learn this morning that the governor’s budget is probably still underfunding the University of Connecticut and higher education overall by tens of millions of dol…

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Our new #Academe issue highlights articles on organizing efforts in academic labor, artificial intelligence, and contingency and graduate student labor, as well as several book reviews and a profile of the AAUP’s University of Scranton Faculty Affiars Council.

Check out the issue below⬇️

It is up to academic labor to ensure that higher education is neither complicit nor silent Gary Rhoades, "How Academic Workers Have Reenergized the Labor Movement"

New in Academe: "How Academic Workers Have Reenergized the Labor Movement" by Gary Rhoades: www.aaup.org/issue/winter...

Faculty form chapter of national union The Williams chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) held its inaugural meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 4. The group hopes to advocate for faculty concerns and greater faculty d...

Congratulations to the newly formed AAUP chapter at Williams College!

“An overwhelming number of faculty decided that it would behoove us to have more independent organization & to try to stand up for faculty governance, for having our voice heard in the governance of this institution."

Struggling with #HigherEd costs? Affiliated #union members and families have access to exclusive nat'l & state #scholarship grants: aftct.org/scholarships #StrengthInUnity @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

"In a moment of intensifying attacks on higher education...we all want to believe that Yale’s historical commitments are sufficient... They are not."

David P. Watts & Tarren Andrews on strengthening academic freedom and faculty governance in the Faculty Handbook.

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We’re educating Connecticut’s workforce, we’re educating Connecticut’s leaders and we want to make sure that education is affordable.”

@csuaaup.bsky.social's Jessica Schofield on AAUP priorities for the new CT legislation session