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Recent Posts
- The Devaluation of Academic Excellence: When ‘Professor’ Becomes a Management Title
- Academic Integrity undermined by non-academic management in Australian universities: A threat to students and society
- AAUP Report Card on University Governance Survey
- AAUP Calls for Urgent Reform of University Management: Management Failures Undermine Public Trust in our Universities
- Public statement: Australia’s Public Universities and Public Accountability
- Allegations of Misconduct and Unethical Conduct by Senior Australian University Managers
- To the editor of Universityworldnews
- USAP Calls for Probity in University Management are Not Properly Reported by the Sydney Morning Herald
- USAP Calls for New Leadership at the University of Sydney
- Statement in support of being able to protest on university campuses
- Fourth AAUP Annual Conference 1 July 2024
- Statement by the Australian Association of University Professors (AAUP) in support of Professor Manuel Graeber
- Petition to reinstate Professor Manuel Graeber (links)
- University of New England Professoriate public statement in support of Professor Manuel Graeber
- Public statement of USAP Council in response to the termination of our President, Professor Manuel Graeber
- USAP statement re Professor Graeber with signatures
- A Commentary on the Proposed Merger of The University of Adelaide and University of South Australia
- PUBLIC HEARINGS ON UNIVERSITY BUDGETS,GOVERNANCE AND PERFORMANCE
- Submission to the Australian Universities Accord
- Open Letter to the Government Dear Prime Minister Albanese
Author Archives: AAUP Administrators
AAUP’S RESPONSE TO THE CENSORSHIP OF ARC
6 January 2022 The Acting Minister of Education, the Hon Stuart Robert MP, has vetoed the funding of six Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Discovery Project applications. These projects out of 3500 applications had been approved for funding by the ARC’s … Continue reading
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AAUP recommends reform of the Freedom of Speech Act
Recently, the Higher Education Support Amendment (Freedom of Speech) Act came into force and Minister Tudge is calling on all universities to implement it. However, there are serious issues with the Act, as explained below. We encourage all AAUP chapters to seek out their … Continue reading
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University Management and Academic Freedom
In 2019, Murdoch University management sued one of their own academic staff members for damages after Associate Professor Gerd Schroeder-Turk publicly expressed concern over the welfare of international students and admissions standards at the University. The action was withdrawn in … Continue reading
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Academic Freedom
Academic Freedom Academic freedom is the freedom to conduct research, publish research outcomes, teach and make public comment within general areas of expertise, without improper interference or restriction from governments, corporations, managerial interventions, from institutional regulation, or from public … Continue reading
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Management is not “The University”
letters@smh.com.au Dear Editor, Management is not “The University” The Australian Association of University Professors (AAUP) notes with interest the ongoing debate regarding the proposed University funding overhaul, including your recent article about the support for the government proposal from UTAS: … Continue reading
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Job-ready Graduates Package — draft legislation submission
Job-ready Graduates Package — draft legislation submission https://docs.education.gov.au/node/54992
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UNIVERSITIES AND NATION LEADING
UNIVERSITIES AND NATION LEADING The impetus for the creation of a group such as the Australian Association of University Professors (AAUP) is the recognition that universities are not achieving their objectives, or that there is some confusion about what these … Continue reading
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What will university be for 14-year-olds like me? (work of a 14-year-old member of the generation that has to be most concerned about the future of our universities)
Cartoon (Comic strip)
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Press Release – DE-FUNDING THE UNIVERSITIES: DISMANTLING MENZIES’ LEGACY
De-funding the Universities: Dismantling Menzies’ Legacy “Many tyrannical regimes have fostered science, but no tyrannical regimes have fostered those faculties of universities that deal with human affairs, sociology, and those fields of thought where criticism of tyranny is likely to … Continue reading
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Press release: Current financial crisis for universities and rebuilding the sector
* the current financial state of universities and what is needed to turn it around AAUP Council: The current crisis offers the opportunity for a fundamental rethink and a fresh start. AAUP is above any party politics and interested in … Continue reading
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