Academic Freedom
UUP Flier on Academic Freedom
AFT Syllabus Statement on Academic Freedom
SUNY UFS Academic Freedom Resources 2025
The PDF document below contains clickable hyperlinks to various academic freedom resources compiled by the SUNY University Faculty Senate Governance Committee.
AAUP Academic Freedom First Aid Kit
Faculty First Responders
Faculty First Responders is a mutual aid group of higher education workers focused on defending and expanding academic freedom. They partner with the AAUP to provide support and resources for academic workers who are experiencing politically-motivated harassment.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AAUP Report on AI
Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions—composed of higher education faculty members, staff, and scholars interested in technology and its impact on academic labor—was formed under the assumption that faculty members are best positioned to understand and improve teaching and learning conditions, including the development and implementation of institutional policies around educational technology.
To learn more about the experiences and priorities of AAUP members, the committee conducted a survey with a sample of five hundred members from nearly two hundred campuses across the country, collected during a two-week time period. Respondents emphasized the importance of improving education on AI, promoting shared governance through policies and oversight, and focusing on equity, transparency, and worker protections.
UUP Research AI Workplace Survey
Defending Our Campuses
In community colleges, technical schools, state colleges, and research universities, higher education workers maintain campuses, feed students, teach courses, undertake research, care for patients, and do so much more.
Colleges and universities are places for learning, training, and discovery. They are economic engines of their local communities, propelling students to success, offering good jobs, and providing opportunities for all to participate in civic life. As research hubs, they develop vital solutions to Americans’ greatest challenges.
Our country’s higher education institutions should serve students, workers, and the communities they anchor. But the Trump administration and MAGA extremists in state governments are accelerating attacks on our colleges and universities and undermining their ability to serve our students and communities. These harmful efforts will impact not only our members but also the students and communities we serve.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) are working with allies in higher education and the labor movement to defend and advance:
- Higher education that is accessible and affordable for all who want it.
- The freedom to teach, to learn, to conduct research, to speak out on issues of the day, and to assemble in the organizations of our choice.
- Colleges and universities that are well positioned to create opportunity for students, workers, and communities.
- Sufficient funding to provide high quality education and sustainable working conditions.
View this collection of resources at the link below: