AAUP Presents

Feb 12 2025 28 ep. 36 mins 20
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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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On Institutional Neutrality

Feb 12 2025 39 mins  
In 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 statement reaffirms that institutional neutrality is neither a necessary condition for academic freedom nor categorically incompatible with it—and that respect for faculty voices and shared governance proce

The Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project: What Faculty Can Do

Sep 30 2024 18 mins  
In this episode we discuss the Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project, a student voter registration project that aims to increase student voter registration and turnout by asking faculty to devote five minutes of class time to voter education and on-the-spot voter registration. The guests are Sam Novey, Chief Strategist at the University of Maryland Center for

New AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts: What It Really Means

Sep 20 2024 34 mins  
In 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 fits in the current debates about academic freedom in higher education. The guests are Rana Jaleel, an associate professor at the University of California at Davis and chair of the AAUP's Committee A on

The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965

Jul 11 2024 35 mins  
In 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 graduate school and professor of social and cultural foundations in the College of Education at the University of Washington. Drawing on her recently published article of the same name in AAUP's Academe, we dis

The Campus Protests: A View from the Ground

May 10 2024 51 mins  
As 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 happening at their respective campuses. We speak to Annelise Orleck at Dartmouth College, whose arrest at a May 1 protest at Dartmouth garnered significant press coverage, Todd Wolfson at Rutgers University, where

Political Interference in Higher Ed: Escalations, Attacks, and the Billionaires Behind It

May 03 2024 52 mins  
As 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 dangerous ways. We discuss how the right (and increasingly the center) have demonized higher education as a public good, and examine the historical origins of the current onslaught of political interference

EdTech: The Perils of Bad Data in Higher Ed

May 03 2024 43 mins  
In this episode we dive into how data, educational technologies (or “EdTech”), and other technological forces are shaping and sometimes harming higher education. The guests are Martha Fay Burtis, an associate director of the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State University, and Jesse Stommel, a faculty member in the writing program at the University of Denv

A National Day of Action For Higher Education

Apr 08 2024 50 mins  
Faculty and student groups at more than 50 U.S. college and university campuses will hold a National Day of Action for Higher Education on Wednesday, April 17 in a coordinated nationwide counterprotest against the sustained right-wing assault on American higher education as a public good. Organizers say the Day of Action for Higher Education will demonstrate how cross-rank organizi

Fighting Political Interference in Higher Ed: Lessons Learned in Ohio and Texas

Feb 27 2024 35 mins  
From Florida to Texas to Ohio to Indiana politicians in some states are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational freedom by passing legislation that interferes with how colleges and universities operate. They’re introducing bills that mandate or prohibit content in the classroom, empower partisan political appointees to determine campus policy, limit the

Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.

Dec 05 2023 61 mins  
In this podcast we discuss the AAUP's special report Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System. The report offers an in-depth review of a pattern of politically, racially, and ideologically motivated attacks on public higher education in Florida, which have largely occurred during the term of Governor Ron DeSantis. The guests are Afsh