Spring 2025 | Volume 111, No. 2
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Our spring issue focuses on the fight for higher education in the first months of the second Trump administration. Articles consider the labor movement’s role in defending higher education and democracy, the implications of Trump’s executive orders for campus communities, and the Right’s decades-long war on universities. This issue also includes a pair of articles—published to coincide with the release of the twelfth edition of the Redbook—about the importance of AAUP policies in times of crisis and how chapters can use AAUP policy language to strengthen protections for academic freedom and faculty governance.
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FEATURES
Organizing for a Just and Democratic Future
Higher education faces existential threats.
By Todd Wolfson and Mia McIver
Academic Freedom, Democracy, and the Role of Faculty Unions
Unions are leading the fight to defend higher education.
By Randi Weingarten
Trump Is Revealing Our Higher Ed Crisis
Legal experts weigh in on the implications of the president’s executive orders.
By Jonathan Feingold and Veena Dubal
Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular
The Right is exploiting a manufactured moral panic.
By Isaac Kamola
Faculty Governance and the Fight for Public Higher Education
Attacks on shared governance are attacks on academic freedom.
By Karma R. Chávez
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the AAUP Redbook But Were Afraid to Ask
What is the Redbook, anyway?
By Gregory F. Scholtz
Negotiating Redbook Policies
Collective bargaining as a xxxxxx against erosion of AAUP policies.
By Michael Mauer
Higher Education and the Defense of Democracy (online only)
Confronting the ideology of ignorance.
By Patricia McGuire
Data Snapshot: Tenure and Contingency in US Higher Education, Fall 2023 (online only)
Federal figures on nonmedical instructional faculty and graduate student employment.
By Glenn Colby
Data Snapshot: Tenure and Contingency in US Medical Schools, Fall 2023 (online only)
Federal figures on medical instructional faculty and graduate student employment.
By Glenn Colby
BOOK REVIEWS
Understanding States’ Dismantling of Higher Education
Kevin R. McClure reviews Wrecked: Deinstitutionalization and Partial Defenses in State Higher Education Policy by Barrett J. Taylor.
Perspectives on Precarious Academic Labor
Catherine L. Moran reviews Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History ed. Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene.
Organizing to Fight Institutional Debt
Aimee Loiselle reviews Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities by the Coalition Against Campus Debt.
COLUMN
From the Editor: Saving Higher Ed from Tyranny
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Academe Book Review Editor Sought
Journal of Academic Freedom Editor Search
NOTA BENE
AAUP Mobilizes Against Trump 2.0
2024–25 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey Results
Inquiry at Muhlenberg
Statement on Institutional Neutrality
Statement on Attacks on Disciplinary Knowledge
Faculty Alliance of Miami Wins First Contract
Ohio University Faculty Vote “Union Yes!”
Faculty Celebrate Union Win at Nevada State University
Remembering Jeffrey A. Butts
AAUP BUSINESS
Developments Relating to Association Censure
