Join us for a webinar on what the Department of Education's "Compact 2.0" means for higher education and what we’re doing to fight back.

A whistleblower complaint sent to Congress sheds new light on the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, confirming the findings of the 2025 AAUP–MESA joint report on the ...

The political assault on nearly all aspects of the US research funding infrastructure since the start of the second Trump ...

The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters by Eve Darian-Smith (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025).

This chapter profile is part of the preview of the fall 2026 issue of Academe. The full issue will be released in October.

A measure of academic freedom could make college rankings more reflective of the conditions under which education occurs.

It seems plain from the title of Soucek’s book that its origins lie in his recoil from the many overstated arguments for “the ...

The Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant students and scholars have shattered the model-minority myth.

Every semester brings a fresh round of incidents of professors coming to public attention for the wrong reasons, testing the ability of college and university leaders to work through the controversy ...

The public memory of September 11, 2001, remains contested in political and social discourse. Schools remain a prominent public institution for educators and students to come together to develop core ...

Academic freedom has never enjoyed the “golden age” that some suggest we are leaving behind. It has always been contested and vulnerable. Today, threats to academic freedom may be more extensive and ...