2025 AAUP Updates

The AAUP has hired Mia McIver as our new executive director. McIver brings to the AAUP a wealth of experience in organizing faculty members and a record of enacting legal, political, and media strategies that empower all higher education workers. A long-time member of the AAUP, she is committed to supporting staff, AAUP chapters, and state conferences in vigorously promoting the AAUP’s core values of shared governance and academic freedom. McIver will work from both Washington, DC, and Los Angeles in order to strengthen the AAUP from coast to coast.

More than a third of respondents to a survey reported a decline in their academic freedom, while over half expressed concern about teaching "divisive concepts" in recent years following state-level efforts to restrict them.