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What Does AI Do?

By Daniel Greene
The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.

AI and Critical Thinking

By Heather Hax
Generative AI is enabling students to avoid the friction of learning—the struggle to synthesize, organize, and articulate ideas that is central to the...

Bringing the Fragments Together

By Britt Paris and Rebecca Reynolds
At the bargaining table and in shared governance, faculty members must demand a meaningful role in decisions about the procurement and use of AI and...

The AI Nuisance

By Jonathan Rees
There’s nothing new about the latest struggle between administrators and the professoriate over control of the classroom.

Intellectual Property and Brainpower Versus AI in Academic Publishing

By Kelly Hand
Authors, editors, and publishers must assert the value of academic writing in an age of exploitative automation.

Teaching Climate Change in the Age of ChatGPT

By Debra J. Rosenthal
Should generative AI be used in courses on the climate crisis?

Cal State’s War on Working-Class Education

By Martha Lincoln and Martha Kenney
The surprise rollout of ChatGPT Edu across the California State University system has provoked outrage and opposition.

Color-Coded Austerity and Shades of Gray

By David Kinsella
Decision intelligence and program cuts at Portland State University.

AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue

By Justine Zhang, Shreya Chowdhary, and Nathan Kim
The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center.

Keeping Humans in the Loop

By Troy A. Swanson
How Illinois’s H.B. 1859 protects learning in the age of AI.

Lessons from the Faculty of a Small Denominational Seminary on Defending Academic Freedom

By Richard L. Hester
What one AAUP chapter’s history can teach us about struggles over the control of higher education institutions.

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Book Reviews

Lessons and Cautionary Tales from Big Tech

By Lisa Pinley Covert
Lisa Pinley Covert reviews Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, Apple in China by Patrick McGee, and Empire of AI by Karen Hao.

Respect for Me but Not for Thee

By Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Dan-el Padilla Peralta reviews Terms of Respect by Christopher Eisgruber (Basic Books, 2025).

Pedagogical Practices to Close the Achievement Gap

By Terry Carter
Terry Carter reviews One Classroom at a Time by David Gooblar (Harvard University Press, 2025).

From the Blog

An Authentic Learning and Assessment Strategy for Interprofessional Education

The Hidden Costs of Productivity Theater in Higher Education

From the Editor: AI in the Corporate University

First Amendment Hero Harry Keyishian Has Died

Apostasy or Enlightenment

A College Football Championship in Our Time of Campus Repression

When A Scientist Must Litigate to Investigate

The Academic Publishing System’s Most Pointless Bottleneck

Imagination Under Constraint: The Futures We Are Permitted to Imagine

CPHE Standards and the Threat to Independent Accreditation

Chapter Profile

University of Scranton Faculty Affairs Council

By Kelly Hand
The University of Scranton is in the uncommon position for a private, Jesuit institution of having a faculty union. The AAUP-AFT chapter, known as the...

Column

Legal Watch: Coalition Litigation Strengthens the Defense of Academic Freedom

By Johnda Bentley
In September 2025, the AAUP and a coalition of unions filed a lawsuit in federal court that resulted in a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking the...

From the Archives

Academic Freedom in Online Education

By Jonathan Poritz and Jonathan Rees
The AAUP has been defending academic freedom for more than a century now, and anyone who has paid close attention to the organization’s history will...